copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2021-06-09): Child Poverty Annual Report 2020/21 [...] This report is the Executive’s Child Poverty Annual Report 2020-21 – a report to the Assembly as required by Article 12(7) of the Life Chances Act 2010. The legislation requires that we publish an Annual Report which describes the measures taken by the Northern Ireland departments in accordance with the Northern Ireland strategy and describes the effects of those measures that contribute to the purpose of ensuring as far as possible that children in Northern Ireland do not experience socio-economic disadvantage. Tackling disadvantage is also an objective reflected in the New Decade New Approach Agreement.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-03-11): Around one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty (before housing costs), with little sustained reduction in levels over the last eight years. This is a key finding of a report published by Comptroller and Auditor General Dorinnia Carville today (Tuesday 12 March 2024). Today’s report on Child Poverty in Northern Ireland considers the effectiveness of the 2016-22 Child Poverty Strategy and its impact on outcomes for children. Tackling poverty is a cross-cutting issue, and therefore an Executive-wide responsibility. [...] "Northern Ireland has not had a strategy to deal with child poverty for almost two years, during a cost-of-living crisis. A failure to tackle child poverty early and effectively risks lifelong impacts to children’s health, education and general development. There is also a considerable cost to the public purse, with previous estimates indicating costs of child poverty to be between £825 million and £1 billion annually."
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2023-12-18): JRF’s previous annual report, UK Poverty 2022, covered to the end of 2019-20 and found that 31% of all UK children were living in poverty, a higher rate than in any NI local authority area. [...] The coalition’s figures – which were published last July, and cover 2019-20 – state that 24% of NI children live in poverty, compared with 21% in Scotland, 34% in Wales and 29% in England. A breakdown of the nine English regions is also provided. The South East and the East Midlands both have the same percentage as NI (24%), while the other seven regions are all higher. Five of the regions have child poverty rates of 30% or higher – including London at 35% and the North East at 38%.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-03-12): The causes of poverty are complex and interlinked 2.5 Poverty rarely has a single cause but is a consequence of a range of factors including rising living costs, low pay, lack of work and inadequate social security benefits. In 2014, a DWP review found that parental worklessness and low earnings were key factors driving child poverty. Whilst the unemployment rate in Northern Ireland is relatively low at just over two per cent, economic inactivity levels in Northern Ireland are amongst the highest in the UK. The inactivity rate (the proportion of people aged 16 to 64 who are not working and not seeking or available to work) in Northern Ireland is 26 per cent, compared to 21 per cent in England, 22 per cent in Scotland and 26 per cent in Wales. 2.6 The number of children in poverty in Northern Ireland who live in a household where at least one adult works is significant. Therefore, the quality of jobs and low wages play an important role in keeping children in poverty. The Social Mobility Commission reports that qualification levels, wages, the proportion of high-paid jobs and the rate of job creation are all lower in NI than the UK average, and that one quarter of jobs here pay less than the Real Living Wage. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation reports that lone parents have the highest level of in-work poverty of all family types and are likely to face barriers such as working in a low-wage sector, working fewer hours and being restricted by access to childcare and transport.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Poverty risk also varies across UK nations and regions, with the highest rates in the West Midlands, inner London and North West England, and considerably lower rates in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Eastern England. Child poverty is higher in households where someone is disabled, and in households with younger children. And child poverty is higher in larger families: 46 per cent of children living in families with 3 or more children live in poverty.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2021-12-06): Regional differences across the UK - Child poverty in families where the youngest child is under five are higher in England and Wales (35% and 34%) than in Scotland (28%) and Northern Ireland (27%). - Within England, the North East has the highest rate of early childhood poverty (46%), followed by London (41%). Rates are lowest in the South West (29%). In the South East and East of England, early childhood poverty is slightly higher now than it was 20 years ago. - Since 2013/14, child poverty rates have been on the rise in some parts of the country. Child poverty rates in Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Manchester now stand at over 40% of all children, compared to 30% across the UK as a whole.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2023-11-24): While child poverty levels in Northern Ireland as a whole are on par with the wider UK, the proportion of children living in low-income families remains high in parts of the region. Eight of its 18 parliamentary constituencies rank in the bottom third of the wider UK, according to recently published government figures. At least one in five children living in those areas were in relative poverty in 2019, rising to more than a quarter (26%) in Belfast West – home to the Lanark Way and Springfield Road interface where some of the recent violence broke out – as well as the Belfast North and Foyle constituencies. [...] The chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Les Allamby, said child poverty was a severe problem in Northern Ireland, where families are bigger on average, meaning the limit on universal credit to two children is acutely felt.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Northern Ireland has the highest rates of poor mental health of any of the four UK jurisdictions [...] Prior to the pandemic, one in eight children had emotional difficulty indicating psychological distress. Northern Ireland also has the highest levels of maternal mental health problems in the UK.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-05-08): This short report argues that low education outcomes, high levels of inequality and their consequences for children’s life chances represent a major challenge for the new First Minister of Wales. Improving this situation should be an urgent priority for his new government. [...] The gaps in performance between the most and least disadvantaged groups are broadly similar across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and are perhaps a little larger for Scotland in reading and maths. However, the difference in levels between England and other nations of the UK by level of disadvantage is very stark. For the least disadvantaged group, we see that scores in England are about 25–30 PISA points higher than in the other nations of the UK, on average. Some of this is likely to be explained by higher incomes at the top end of the spectrum in England. However, it is notable that scores for the least disadvantaged 25% of children in Wales are only barely above the average for all children in England. [...] To be clear, the overall level of the disadvantage gap and educational inequalities in England are substantial, with a national disadvantage gap of 18 months before the pandemic and much evidence to suggest that this has been getting even worse over recent years (Babbini et al., 2023). But the picture in Wales looks even worse than this. This greater disadvantage gap cannot be explained by higher levels of disadvantage in Wales. Areas of England with similar or higher levels of disadvantage manage to achieve lower levels of educational inequality. The explanation must lie elsewhere.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2020-02-13): However, in Northern Ireland 18% of the population live in poverty, the lowest of all regions of the UK. Several regions have a 19% poverty rate (including Scotland and the South East) while the highest rates of poverty are found in Wales and the West Midlands (both 24%) and, in particular, in London (28%). [...] Northern Ireland’s welfare reform mitigations will certainly have played a part in its relatively low poverty rate. Per the JRF report: "For people living in those families claiming an income-related benefit… Northern Ireland has a substantially lower poverty rate of 33% compared with other areas of the UK for people living in families claiming an income-related benefit. Since 2013/14–2015/16, Northern Ireland has witnessed the greatest fall in this poverty rate relative to other areas of the UK." [...] Ultimately, it’s better to have lower rather than higher poverty rates, although the whole picture behind these figures is not cause for celebration. NI still has too few good jobs.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2020-02-07): - The group with the highest poverty throughout the last decade and worst impacted by welfare reform have been lone parents[7] in Northern Ireland; of which 91% are women[8]. [...] - Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a government-funded Childcare Lone parents and families with a disabled child are less likely to be able to afford formal childcare and face further barriers to employment[11] [...] Briefing Papers SN06758, http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06758/SN06758.pdf [7] UK Women’s Budget Group, (2016), ‘A cumulative gender impact assessment of ten years of austerity policies’,https://wbg.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2016/11/De_HenauReed_WBG_GIAtaxben_briefing_2016_03_06.pdf [8] Women’s Regional Consortium, (2019), ‘Impact of Ongoing Austerity: Women’s Perspectives’, http://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/sites/default/files/Impact%20of%20Ongoing%20Austerity%20Women%27s%20Perspectives.pdf [9] Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (2018), ‘Types of Families Most Likely to Need a Foodbank’, https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/speri-foodbanks-trussell-trust-1.771247 [10] UK Women’s Budget Group, (2018), ‘Disabled Women and Austerity’, https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Disabled-women-October-2018-w-cover-2.pdf [11] Employers for Childcare, (2019), ‘Northern Ireland Childcare Survey 2019’, https://www.employersforchildcare.org/app/uploads/2019/06/Northern-Ireland-Childcare-Survey-2019-FINAL.pdf [12] Women’s Policy Group NI, (2019), ‘Women’s Manifesto: General Election 2019’, http://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/sites/default/files/Women%27sManifesto2019.pdf [13] PSNI, (2019), ‘Domestic Abuse Incidents’, https://www.psni.police.uk/inside-psni/Statistics/domestic-abuse-statistics/
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2021-06-01): Northern Ireland has seen little progress on child poverty for more than five years, according to figures released last month. [...] - One in four children (24%) – around 95,000 in total - are growing up in poverty in Northern Ireland, with two thirds of that group (66%) growing up in families where parents are working - Places with the highest levels of child poverty include Belfast (26.1%), Derry and Strabane (26.0%) and Newry and Mourne (26.3%) [...] Speaking on behalf of End Child Poverty Lorna Ballard, National Director for Northern Ireland Action for Children, said: "Every day we see families struggling to make ends meet, worrying about providing for their children’s’ basic needs and making decisions like whether to heat their homes or pay for food, and the situation is only getting worse."
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2013-02-20): West Belfast 'second highest in UK for child poverty' West Belfast has the second highest level of child poverty in the UK, according to a new report from the End Child Poverty, external campaign. [...] Barnardo's NI director, Lynda Wilson, said the figures contained in the report were "shocking" and showed that about 100,000 children were living in poverty in Northern Ireland.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-01-23): The UK is entering this election year with unacceptably high levels of poverty, appallingly high for some groups. We need a coherent plan with creative policies to end poverty in the UK. [...] Between 2019/20 and 2021/22, the average poverty rates in England (22%), Wales (22%) and Scotland (21%) had converged to around the same level, although poverty rates were much lower in Northern Ireland (16%). [...] Child poverty rates in Scotland (24%) remain much lower than those in England (31%) and Wales (28%) and are similar (if slightly higher) than in Northern Ireland (22%). This is likely to be due, at least in part, to the Scottish Child Payment. This highlights the effect benefits can have in reducing poverty.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2021-05-19): Overall, in the North East, the child poverty rate has risen by over a third - from 26% to 37% - over five years, moving from just below the UK average to the second-highest of any region, after London. A third of the overall increase happened in the latest year (2019/20) with many low-paid workers pushed below the poverty line by the freeze in their in-work benefits. [...] Of the UK nations, Wales has the highest percentage of children living in poverty nationwide (31%), followed by England (30%) then Scotland and Northern Ireland (24% each). [...] "The trend in the North East is particularly bleak. The region has experienced a steep rise in child poverty since 2014/15, and rates are now almost on a par with London, where child poverty is generally most prevalent after housing costs are taken into account. It is unusual to see such a clear trend over a relatively short period of time, and this highlights the need to address growing inequalities between regions of the UK.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2022-03-16): Poverty in Northern Ireland 2022 This report explores the rates of poverty of Northern Ireland and assesses the impact that poverty is having on the lives of people who live there. It also looks at how Northern Ireland’s rates of relative poverty compare with those elsewhere in the UK. As Northern Ireland entered the pandemic, nearly one-in-five people in Northern Ireland lived in poverty, including over 100,000 children. With 1 in 14 households in food insecurity, the recent spike in energy prices, and wider inflation, as well as certain areas of Northern Ireland and groups such as people in workless families, disabled people, carers and people in ethnic minority households having much higher poverty rates, people across Northern Ireland need the next Executive to go further and focus on:
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2024-03-22): While the West Midlands and North East now have the highest rate of child poverty across the regions, many of the worst affected local authorities continue to be in London. This is driven by the very high cost of housing in the capital. Tower Hamlets had the highest concentration of child poverty in the UK in 2021/22, with almost half of children living below the poverty line after accounting for housing costs. Child poverty rates are also high in other large cities like Birmingham and Manchester. [...] The wide spread of dots in London, for example, shows that your likelihood of being in poverty depends very much on where you live in the city. The dots in the North East are more concentrated, showing that almost everywhere in that region has similarly high child poverty rates.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2023-03-30): A publication entitled "The Northern Ireland Poverty and Income Inequality report (2021/22)" was published today by the Department for Communities. [...] This publication combines information that was previously published in the NI Poverty Bulletin and NI Households Below Average Income report. It provides estimates of the proportion and number of individuals, children, working age adults and pensioners living in poverty, and other statistics relating to household income and income inequality. [...] - This publication presents annual estimates of the percentage and number of people, children, working age adults and pensioners living in poverty households in Northern Ireland (NI). The data published in this report are for the financial year April 2021 to March 2022.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2022-07-04): - There is a strong association between deprivation and the risk of death throughout childhood, with children in deprived areas more likely to die.1 [...] - Falling trends have been mirrored in England and Wales, where the rate in 2018 was 9.9 per 100,000 children.2 - The mortality rate is higher in Northern Ireland, but low numbers of deaths in there makes it difficult to interpret trends. The rate in Northern Ireland was 10.0 per 100,000 children3 and in Scotland the rate was 9.7 per 100,000 in 2018.4 - The top three causes of death in the 1-4 age group in England and Wales are: [...] Focus on environmental and social factors to reduce inequalities. Across all age groups, children who live in poverty and deprivation are less likely to survive than their more privileged peers.1 Efforts to reduce child poverty remain crucial to child survival.6 Universal health visiting services play a vital role in this for pre-school children, particularly for accident prevention guidance.
Claim: Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK. (Emma de Souza, 2023-04-03)
Evidence (2018-02-15): 15/02/18 42% of Households in Northern Ireland Affected by Fuel Poverty This article reports that Northern Ireland has the highest level of fuel poverty in the UK and one of the highest in the European Union, with current estimates indicating that 42% of households are affected. The article cites the Marmot Review.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2021-02-20): Legislation lists the years in which a canvass must be completed. It is specific that a canvass is due in 2021, with the subsequent one in 2030 and then every following ten years unless the Act is amended. An ad hoc canvass in intervening years does not reset the need for these end of decade canvasses.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2015-03-27): From July each year Electoral Registration Offices (EROs) contact households to check if the details on the electoral register are correct. This is called the annual canvass.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2021-02-12): The last canvass took place in Northern Ireland in 2013. [...] The canvass is legally required by the UK government, but Mr Maskey described it as "organised voter suppression" by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO). [...] Unlike in Great Britain, Northern Ireland does not have an annual canvass process and Westminster sources said 2021 must be a canvass year.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2024-09-25): Elections in Northern Ireland [...] Northern Ireland Assembly elections [...] The last Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on 5 May 2022.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2024-10-06): - ^ O'Carroll, Lisa (9 February 2023). "Northern Ireland assembly election to be delayed again". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 February 2023. - ^ Pogatchnik, Shawn (9 February 2023). "UK concedes reality of Northern Ireland deadlock, shifts election 'deadline' to 2024". POLITICO. Retrieved 9 February 2023. [...] - ^ Hughes, Brendan (18 January 2023). "Latest Stormont deadline looms but little sign of snap election". BelfastLive.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2024-09-28): 2023 Northern Ireland local elections [...] - ^ "Northern Ireland local election results 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2023. [...] - ^ "Lisburn and Castlereagh result - Northern Ireland Council Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2013-08-22): Electoral register canvass to begin A canvass for personal details for the new electoral register ahead of the next European elections in Northern Ireland will begin on Saturday, it was revealed. [...] A new register is published each year by the electoral office for Northern Ireland. Each eligible person has to complete an individual form and give details of their name, address, date of birth and national insurance number.
Claim: The next electoral canvass in Northern Ireland must be completed before 2023, ten years after the 2013 canvass. (Newton Emerson, 2021-02-20)
Evidence (2022-02-26): To stay on the electoral register, everyone should reply to the communications that will be sent out by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland over summer and autumn 2021. There will be a number of pieces of communication, such as informing when the canvass is happening, requesting people to respond to the canvass online or using a paper form, and reminding people previously on the register that they have not reregistered. The Electoral Commission will also be running a public information campaign to highlight the importance of completing the canvass. EONI may send out pre-populated forms using census data to some categories of voters less likely to register online. [...] The 2013 canvass added 47,196 voters (including 9,945 young people who had turned 18) to the register whom EONI had no previous record of being registered to vote in Northern Ireland. After that canvass, 112,013 voters were rolled over and retained on the register using data-matching techniques for a further three (extended from two) years. [...] The Northern Ireland Assembly Parties Panel was briefed about the upcoming 2021 canvass at its 6 October 2020 meeting.