The Trades Union Congress has published a new briefing arguing that inequality is just as damaging to children’s health, education and well-being as poverty.

Poverty and inequality and children finds that, while the UK has had some success in reducing the level of poverty over the last decade, progress on social inequality has been much more muted. Over the last 30 years inequality has grown rapidly in the UK, and the gap between the top tenth of the population and the bottom tenth has doubled since 1979.

The briefing can be downloaded from the TUC website.