In-work poverty rises sharply as child poverty among full-time working families grows, reveal IPPR and Action for Children

Rates of child poverty have tripled among families with two full-time working adults since 2000Children of single parent families are twice as likely to fall into poverty and less likely to escape it than children in couple householdsIPPR and Action for Children call for overhaul of benefits system to support working parentsChildren are now significantly more likely to be growing up in poverty despite all adults in their household working full time than they were two decades ago, reveals new res