One-in-three children in Rotherham “living in poverty”
ALMOST one in three children in Rotherham is living in poverty, according to a new report.
End Child Poverty said 17,960 (30.4 per cent) of children in the local authority area were living below the breadline.
Tax credit data and national trends in worklessness were used to estimate the number of children in poverty because their parents have lost their jobs, with the findings broken down into parliamentary constituencies.
There were 8,699 (39.3 per cent) children classed as living in poverty in Rotherham, 6,175 (28.4 per cent) in Wentworth and Dearne and 4,811 (23.5 per cent) in the Rother Valley.
Young hit hard by £15 million council budget cuts
COUNCIL bosses pledged to prioritise adult and children’s social care as £15 million budget savings were published.
But Rotherham’s youngest will bear the brunt of cuts as £350,000 will be withdrawn from youth clubs and children’s centres over the next two years and Rotherham Youth Enterprise will be scaled back.
The gap for the coming year will take the total shortfall in Government funding to £177 million since 2010.
Adult social care will be helped by a ring-fenced council tax levy and investment is set to continue to improve children’s services, rated good by Ofsted last month.
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