A report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute says that this highlights how work alone is not the answer to ending poverty.
The Annual Report on the State of Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK uses official Government data and focuses on the 18-month recession of 2008 and 2009.
While the number of children in workless households living in poverty fell to 1.6 million, the number of poor children living in working households rose, accounting for 58 per cent of children in poverty. Overall, the number of children living in poverty fell to 3.7 million.
Report co-author Tom MacInnes said the fall in child poverty in jobless households came about despite an increase of around 60,000 in the number of children living in these households.
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