Nottingham had been named among the worst cities in the U.K for child poverty, according to the Campaign to End Child Poverty. Its figures show that more than one in three children are growing up in squalor and destitution.
More figures released by the campaign showed that around 32% of households in Nottingham had no single household member in a job. All figures caused Nottingham City Council leader Councillor Jon Collins to make a call to avoid making spending cuts in the hardest-hit areas, saying that the question that needed to be asked was why Nottingham was facing so many cuts compared to other cities when “so many families are living in poverty”.
Despite the gloomy figures, however, work is being undertaken to aid children in poverty. New centres and programs to shelter children and aid parents into work are being brought into effect, all with the intention of increasing the family income of affected families and reduce all figures.