A child is said to live in poverty if they live in a household with an income below 60% of the national average. This has wide ranging affects on a child’s life including insufficient food and poor housing https://cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/what-poverty

Map from My London News https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/new-london-map-shows-most-31467325?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar and the Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/six-out-seven-uk-kids-35032349 based on data from the Department of Work & Pensions.

The rate of child poverty is increasing in the constituency of Croydon East (which includes the council ward of Addiscombe West) as it is in the rest of the UK https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-child-poverty/

The UK is currently ranked the 6th wealthiest country in the world based on Gross Domestic Product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)