THE number of children in poverty across the region has risen by more than ten thousand since 2010, according to new figures.
New analysis published last week by The Trades Union Congress (TUC) showed another 10,744 children are growing up below the breadline in Yorkshire and the Humber, compared to 2010.
In Great Britain overall, poverty among children with a working parent in the house, has risen by 38 per cent since 2010.
TUC is now setting out four clear targets to whichever party comes into power in December, to reduce these growing numbers.
They are to: raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour, stop and scrap Universal Credit, ban zero-hours contracts and give workers new rights to join unions and bargain for better pay and conditions across industries.
The data for child poverty from 2010/11 and 2017/18 comes from the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics.
A household is considered to be in relative poverty if its income is less than 60 per cent of median income after housing costs.
This new data follows on from figures released in May which broke child poverty down into constituency.
Bradford West (50.9 per cent, after housing costs) and Bradford East (46.7 per cent, after housing costs) were picked out as two of the 25 constituencies in the United Kingdom with the highest levels of child poverty.
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