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This educational overview presents critical insights into the realities of poverty in the UK. It highlights how socioeconomic factors impact children's health, education, and quality of life. Facts show that baby boys from professional backgrounds live nearly 7 years longer than those from low-skilled jobs. A significant portion of low-income parents often sacrifices basic needs to provide for their children. Additionally, educational outcomes differ drastically based on family wealth. This resource encourages reflection on the causes of poverty and how societal structures affect families.

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  1. Starter Are these facts true or false?

  2. Baby boys born to parents with a professional job live almost 7 years longer than baby boys born to parents with a low-skilled job.

  3. Over 90% of low income parents say they often go without (food, clothes and leisure activities) to ensure their children have enough.

  4. By the age of six, a less able child from a rich family is likely to have overtaken a more able child from a poor family at school.

  5. Families living in poverty have less than £13 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport.

  6. Poor children are only a third as likely to get 5 GCSEs at A* to C than those from richer backgrounds.

  7. A quarter of families in the band of lowest income in the UK can’t afford to keep their houses warm.

  8. Many families in poverty in the UK cannot afford to buy the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables. Facts adapted from Barnardos: www.barnardos.co.uk

  9. They are all true!

  10. Learning Objective: To learn about the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK.

  11. Poverty is more likely in: • Families where no one works • Families who live in social housing • Families with only one parent. • Studies have also found that large families, families with one disabled member and families of black or ethnic origin are at higher risk of poverty in the UK.

  12. It is time to step into someone else’s shoes... let’s play the Life Game!

  13. Plenary • Complete your Reflection Sheet

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