It is anticipated that children in the lowest decile of the income distribution will have higher rates of deprivation than other children and that they live in the types of households that had already been more vulnerable before the crisis, and have been hit hardest by the economic downturn. These will include family structure (single parent), family (household) size, migration status or parents' employment (low work intensity) and education.2 Further, the paper will assess the relative importance of these characteristics in determining relative disadvantage, and consider whether these features are common across European countries. Additionally, it compares the rates of child material deprivation for the most disadvantaged with that of the total child population. It will also look at child-specific items in Europe over four years to analyse the changes during the Great Recession specific to different dimensions of child material deprivation (based on EU-SILC 2009 and EU-SILC 2013 child-specific material deprivation module).3This will illustrate how deprivation translates into childhood experience.