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An area of Birmingham has been named the 'poorest' place in the country on a new child poverty list.

Constituencies were ranked based on the number of children impacted by the two-child benefit cap, which is set to be scrapped soon.

It gives an indication where kids face the toughest challenges growing up, and are more at risk of being drawn into crime and addition in later life.

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Almost 12,000 children live in homes hit by the benefit cap in the Ladywood area of Birmingham - over a third and more than anywhere else in England.

Scrapping the cap would allow low-income parents with more than two kids to claim hun

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