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Upsetting child poverty figures
North Devon Journal
|May 01, 2025
AS many as three out of every seven children are living in poverty in Devon's most deprived neighbourhoods.
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Excluding Plymouth, a total of 29,368 children aged 0 to 15 were living in poverty in the year ending March 2024 - the last full year under the Conservative government - according to the latest figures from the DWP.
That's up from 27,412 a year earlier and works out as almost one in five (19%) of children in the county.
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