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Inequality is not only a gap in

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bank balances.

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It can be a gap of twenty

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years in good health.

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Trussell tells Steve’s story: an injury ended

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his work in event security.

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He needed food bank support.

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A health shock had become an income

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shock.

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Follow thirty years of official child-poverty figures.

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There are important breaks in who is

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counted and how, so we do not

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draw one unbroken before-and-after claim.

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In the latest figures, more than one

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in four children are below sixty percent

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of the middle household income, after housing

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costs and household size are allowed for.

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The lived-experience survey asks a different question.

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Among lower-income households, sixty-two percent said they

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had gone without an essential item in

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the last six months.

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That is not sixty-two percent of everybody

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in Britain.

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It is a survey of households in

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the lowest forty percent of incomes.

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Keeping the group clear matters.

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Now look at healthy life expectancy.

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In England’s most deprived areas, men can

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expect around fifty years in good health,

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compared with sixty-nine in the least deprived.

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For women, the figures are around forty-eight

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and sixty-nine years.

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These differences reflect overlapping conditions; they do

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not prove income alone caused them.

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Steve’s story shows one pathway.

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Poor health can make work harder.

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Losing income makes food, warmth and a

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secure home harder to afford.

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Those pressures can damage health too.

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So look beyond a national average: adequate

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income, prevention, affordable essentials and support after

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a shock.

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Then check whether fewer people actually go

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without.

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Explore who is affected and what could

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change at www dot uk-statpack dot co

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dot uk.