17,000 children live in poverty in this province but the child poverty rate is down 5 per cent.
The Human Development Council has released its report card on child poverty with statistics from 2008 that do not reflect the economic realties brought on by the recession.
Researcher Kathryn Asher says they expect things to get worse before they get better with increases in the social assistance caseloads and in the usage of food banks.
Asher adds while the child poverty rate is down, the proportion of children living in working poor famillies is on the rise.
