a source of acute shame for a city that has much else to be proud of.
For a mayor who has little direct influence over wages or benefit and tax rates that directly affect income this can seem at first glance a hard problem to tackle. One approach is to make income matter less. Opening up public space, banning advertising near schools or increasing access to the arts means that a child’s experiences are less dependent on their parents’ income. Kate Bell has called this a process of ‘de-commodifying’ the experience of childhood: narrowing the spheres in which family income determines a child’s life chances.55
But a visionary leader does more than mitigate the effect of gross inequality. New York’s Bill de Blasio won his mayoral election by exposing the pernicious effect of the gap between rich and poor on one of the world’s few other Western mega-cities; it will surely feature equally prominently in London’s upcoming vote. We touch on some ideas below and develop more in Chapter 4.
A London Child Trust Fund
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