Irish child poverty rates set to get worse

Rates of child deprivation and poverty in Ireland compare favourably with other developed countries but Unicef has waned “the worst is yet to come”.

A new Unicef report, Measuring Child Poverty, has ranked countries in relation to child poverty levels across the world’s wealthiest nations.

In the new league, Ireland ranks eighth out of 29 “economically advanced countries” in terms of child deprivation — ahead of countries such as Britain, Germany and Spain but behind all the Scandinavian countries, as well as Holland and Luxembourg.