Seven children : inequality and Britain's next generation

Dorling, Daniel2024

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If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? 'Seven Children' is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book constructs seven 'average' children from millions of statistics - each child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket, from the poorest to the wealthiest. Dorling's seven were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europe's most socially divided nation. They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost-of-living crisis. Their country has Europe's fastest-rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations endure. Immersive, surprising and thought-provoking, this book gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain's most pressing issues.