Only 25 other electoral wards in the whole of the UK had a higher proportion of children living in poverty. In the Normanton area of Derby ... using our interactive map: In the Newport ward ...

"It's a waste of money and doesn't make sense." That is one particularly unsentimental attitude one Derbyshire MP expressed to me about the county's current patchwork system of local government ...

Across Derbyshire ... map: In the Newport ward of Middlesbrough, six out of every seven children - that’s 85% of them - live in poverty - the highest proportion of any electoral ward in the UK.

You can see how many children were living in poverty in your neighbourhood last year - and contact your MP about the issue - by using our interactive map ... the North of England and Birmingham. After ...