Social and enviromental context
Child poverty
Available data
The data used to measure child poverty is National Indicator 116. This measures the proportion of children in the borough who are deemed to be living in poverty. The proportion of children in poverty is calculated as follows:
Proportion of dependent children in a Local Authority who live in households whose equivalised income is below 60% of the contemporary national median/The total number of children resident in the area.
The latest data can be found on: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/child_poverty.htm
Commentary
Wandsworth has 26.7% of its children living in poverty - which is the just outside the bottom quartile for this measure.
When just inner London is examined we have the second lowest percentage of children in poverty, after the City of London.
