Overall, six of London's boroughs are losing at least £600 per working age adult per year. The map also shows that the five local authorities most affected by the total benefit cap for families where no-one is in work are in London. For example, over 1,800 families in Enfield will be affected.

The map is drawn from data analysed by Sheffield Hallam University.

Visit the FT's austerity map.

Find out more about poverty and benefits in London.

The finding, from research by fuel poverty alliance, Energy Bill Revolution, was reported in the Evening Standard. According to the Department for Energy & Climate change, a household is in fuel poverty if it needs to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel to maintain a satisfactory heating regime (usually 21 degrees for the main living area, and 18 degrees for other occupied rooms).

Energy Bill Revolution is calling for a carbon tax to be used to make homes more energy-efficient.

Find out more about this research from End Fuel Poverty.

Find out more about child poverty in London from the London's Poverty Profile.

The rise in the number of low-paid jobs reflects the increase in the rate of the London Living Wage - indicating that wages are failing to keep pace with inflation in the costs of living, especially in the capital.

The increase in jobs paid below the LLW affects all Londoners but worst affected are:

• 40% of Londoners from Pakistani/Bagladeshi backgrounds.
• 30% of Londoners from Black African backgrounds
• 1 in 4 of Londoners from Indian backgrounds - even though they have high employment rates.
• Half of 16-24 year olds in work are paid less than the London Living Wage.

Almost half (48%) of the low paid workers are in restaurant, hotels, retail and wholesale.

It is striking that, despite the Olympics, working residents in Newham are more likely to be paid below the London Living Wage - 30% - than in any other borough.

Start exploring the latest data on low pay in London.

Find out more about the Living Wage.

Find out more about the Costs and Benefits of a Living Wage.

The London Living Wage has risen by 25p per hour to £8.55, based on the Greater London Authority's calculations of increases in the costs of living for low-paid workers since 2011.

Trust for London, the creators of this site, is just one of over 200 employers in London who now pay the Living Wage.

Living Wage Week runs from 4 to 10 November 2012. Find out more from the Living Wage Foundation.

Find out more about how the London Living Wage is calculated from the GLA.

Find out more about Londoners who are paid below a Living Wage.

The social fund, currently administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), seeks to meet a range of needs that are not met by regular benefit or tax credit payments. The DWP will continue to deliver the regulated social fund (e.g. Sure Start maternity grants) but parts of the discretionary social fund - community care grants, budgeting loans and crisis loans - are being devolved to local authorities.

From April 2013, local authorities will have responsibility for meeting the needs for one-off items of expenditure for benefit claimants through community care grants, and for emergency financial support for all local residents through crisis loans.

The Guardian is reporting that some councils are looking at strengthening food banks or providing cards to buy items at specified shops, rather than offering cash. Food banks would not meet the needs currently covered for emergency items such as a cooker or a fridge.

With funding from Trust for London, Child Poverty Action Group has worked with a number of local authorities to produce a briefing on the key risks and promising approaches in plans for local delivery of the social fund.

Read more about this story from The Guardian.

Read more about the social fund from Child Poverty Action Group.

The population of England & Wales has grown overall by 3.7 million, but London has been the fastest growing region. It means London's population is back to the level recorded in the 1950s.

Nine of the 10 local authorities with the highest population growth are in London. Of the 20 most crowded local authorities in the country, 19 are in the capital.

Tower Hamlets has grown the fastest, with a 26.6 per cent increase in the number of residents since 2001, followed by Newham, with a 23.5 per cent population rise.

There is more information about London's population and geography on the London's Poverty Profile site, which will be updated as more data is released from the 2011 Census.

The Census 2011 data is available from the Office for National Statistics website.

Most of the graphs in the income poverty section of London's Poverty Profile have been updated with the latest available data. We have added a new indicator on poverty rates by household tenure. It shows that, over the past decade, poverty has increased among people in private rented and owner occupied homes, while poverty has fallen among social housing residents. This reflects wider changes in household tenure in London, outlined in the housing section of this website.

New Policy Institute, Trust for London's partners in running this site, have blogged about the main findings from their analysis of the new income poverty data. Read more.

We are waiting for the release of data from Department for Work and Pensions to update the indicators on material deprivation and in-work poverty.

Visit the income poverty indicators.

The report, by Landman Economics, defines vulnerable families as those experiencing three or more of seven criteria including worklessness, mother's mental ill health, material deprivation and a lack of adult qualifications. This is a wider definition than used by Government, which focuses on families meeting with five or more of these problems.

The commissioning charities are calling for an assessment of the impact of government policy choices on the next generation. They estimate that by 2015 these families will be £3,000 a year worse off as a result of tax and benefit changes.

Read more from the Children's Society.

Find out more about child poverty in the capital on London's Poverty Profile.

The figures were released by charity Broadway who manage the CHAIN database, based on information from outreach teams across the capital. CHAIN is commissioned and funded by the Greater London Authority.

The Mayor has a target to ensure that no-one spends a second night rough sleeping by 2012. This was achieved for 70% of people identified on the streets in 2011/12. Charities, including Crisis and St Mungo's, have called on Boris Johnson to do more to achieve his goal of ending rough sleeping.

We have previously reported on the 73% rise in rough sleepers identified in March and April 2012, compared to the same two months in the previous year. This suggests the 2011/12 figures may continue to rise.

See our indicator on rough sleeping or download the 2011/12 bulletin from Broadway with the full detailed figures.

Find out more about homelessness from London's Poverty Profile.

Daycare Trust's 2012 London childcare report, launched this week at City Hall, reveals for the first time the particular factors which together are causing a growing childcare crisis in the capital:

• Childcare in London is on average 20 per cent more expensive than anywhere else in the country, with London parents on average spending over £6,000 a year on a part-time childcare place in a nursery.

• London families are the least likely to be able to rely on relatives to help with childcare. Just 18 per cent of London parents turn to grandparents to help look after their children, compared with 32 per cent of families across Britain as a whole.

• Take-up of the free early education offer, of 15 hours free childcare for three and four year olds, is lower in London than anywhere else in England. Figures published last week show that while 96 of eligible children across the country accessed their free place, only 87 per cent in inner London did so, with the rate falling to below 80 per cent in two London boroughs.
  
• London is a 24/7 city with many of its jobs requiring evening or weekend work, but there is very little childcare outside normal office hours available across the 33 London boroughs.

• Meanwhile despite the fact that London's female population is the best qualified in the UK, the percentage of London working age women in work is the lowest, at 60.5%.

• 26 per cent of London children live in workless households, and almost four in ten London children are living in poverty.

Read more and download the report from the Daycare Trust.

Find out more about childcare availability in London boroughs.

New analysis of the figures for London's Poverty Profile, shows that pupils are doing better irrespective of whether they are eligible for free school meals. Children on free school meals (a proxy for low-income families) have long done better in education in London than elsewhere. But, whereas in 2006-07, Inner London had a higher proportion of children not on free school meals failing to reach attainment targets at Key Stage 4, by 2010-11 the proportion was lower than the rest of England.

Moreover, comparisons across ethnicity, gender and free school meal status, show that 16 year old Londoners are consistently ahead of their counterparts in the rest of the country . 62% now get 5 GCSEs at A*-C including English and maths, compared with 58% in the rest of the country. The sharpest difference is for poor boys - where less than 30% hit this target across England compared to almost 50% in Inner London.

However, despite being better qualified than elsewhere at 19, young Londoners still find it harder to get work - 1 in 4 of economically active 16-24 year olds in London are unemployed, compared with a national average of 1 in 5.

All the education data on this site has now been updated to include the latest available figures. Start exploring here.

Read more about the housing data on the New Policy Institute blog.

The report's author, Dr Neil Lee, said: "The government should be addressing youth unemployment as one of its most urgent priorities, yet the response so far has been piecemeal. At present, the government's response is split across the Department of Education, BIS and DWP."

"It is a particular concern that at present no agency tracks or has responsibility for young people making the onwards transition from school."

The report calls for the establishment of a Youth Employment Unit along the lines of the Cabinet Office's Cities Unit. The unit would engage with all relevant third sector bodies and representatives of local government and would be headed by a cross departmental minister with responsibility for youth employment at a national level. The minister would coordinate responses across government and engage with representatives of business and charities.

Drawing on interviews, data analysis and a review of current policies, Short-term crisis, long-term problem: Addressing the youth unemployment challenge examines the characteristics of young unemployed people and sets out a detailed agenda for action.

The report highlights the urgent need to bring more young people into the support system and argues that engagement and support of the third sector may be the most effective means of doing this. In addition, it recommends a range of measures for helping young people once they are in the system, including pre-apprenticeships and guaranteed part-time jobs after 12 months.

The report was funded by Barclays, The Learning and Skills Improvement Service, Private Equity Foundation and Trust for London. It is part of The Work Foundation's Missing Million programme, a two year solutions-focused project aimed at increasing the employment prospects of young people in the UK.

Download the full report from The Work Foundation.

Find out more about young adult unemployment in London.

This change comes about following the Welfare Reform Act 2012, which removed eligibility for Income Support for low-income lone parents with children aged 5 and 6. 124,000 single parents are affected.

Gingerbread is concerned that JSA conditionality makes it harder for single parents to undertake further education, which evidence suggests will make a significant difference to their employment and earnings potential.

Analysis for Gingerbread by the Work Foundation, reveals that one in five single parents who find a job are unemployed again within 12 months.

Single parents with young children are particularly likely to seek shorter hour jobs but this reform is being implemented 17 months before more support for childcare costs for single parents working fewer than 16 hours a week becomes available.

Read Gingerbread's report: It's off to work we go?

Find out more about lone parents in London.

The number of households receiving LHA has risen in all but five boroughs in London. The biggest increases have been in Outer London.

Overall, there were 280,000 households in receipt of LHA in London by December 2011, up from 260,000 in 2010.

This increase was revealed as part of updating all the indicators on housing and homelessness on this site with the latest available data. Start exploring the updated graphs and maps.

Read more about Local Housing Allowance numbers.

More analysis of the figures is available from the New Policy Institute blog.

These figures come from new analysis undertaken by Fawcett, the campaign for women's equality. Fawcett are also highlighting other examples of women's inequality in London, such as the higher recorded number of sexual offences and much lower levels of maternal employment than the national average.

The research was part of Fawcett's What About Women in London? campaign, which was funded by Trust for London.

Find out more about women and poverty in London from indicators on this site.