"Are three quarters of children in poverty living in working families? Gerry Georgieva BBC Verify Today During Prime Minister’s Questions today, Keir Starmer said that "three quarters of children in poverty are in working families". This is in the right ballpark if you look at the latest figures for the number of children classed as being in “relative poverty” - after housing costs are accounted for. Being in relative poverty means that these children were living in households whose income was less than 60% of the median for the UK that year. The most recent figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, show 72% of the children in relative poverty in the 2023-24 financial year were in families with at least one adult in work. Of those children, 15% were in single-parent households with a working adult and 57% were in two-parent households with at least one working adult."

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