He spoke in a packed assembly hall at St Aloysius' College, laying out the main arguments of his latest book 'Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation'. 

In it, Dorling 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 children 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 prevail, and change is possible.

Immersive and intimate, this book gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain's most pressing economic, social and political issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the super rich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living, between those two extremes? Who are today's real middle class? And what if tomorrow's challenge isn't spiralling inequality, but how to reverse the new trend that leaves all children worse off than their parents?

Dorling spoke to over 300 teachers and students from various north London school and attempted to present answers to the questions his book poses. He also answered questions from the audience, one of which - Do shifts in inequality come under Labour or the Conservatives? - can be watched on Youtube by clicking on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNxKVpKJSeg

The event was organised by Channing School and hosted by St Aloysius' College, marking another successful collaboration between the neighbouring schools.