In the last year the number of children reliant on a benefit (their caregiver's) has risen by over 3,000.
In the last 6 years the increase is just a smidgen under 40,000.
This is a 24 percent increase against a population aged 0-17 years-old which grew by just 1.7 percent.
The upward trend was accelerated by covid but began prior and has not reversed since.
