CYP Now - A week is a long time…

As I write, it is still a few days until the Chancellor delivers his deferred autumn statement, but by the time this is published we will all be analysing the impact his plans will have on us, our organisations, and our communities and it feels that whatever is announced the winter is going to be a tough one.

Emma Bennett is director of families for City of Wolverhampton Council. Picture: Adobe Stock/UVA4

So as Harold Wilson once said, a week is a long time in politics. However, seven days, if you are watching the balance on your electricity meter or working out how you can feed the kids until next pay day, isn’t just a long time, it might feel like a lifetime.

In Wolverhampton, like I imagine in many other places, we’re certainly seeing the cost-of-living crisis impacting a larger and sometimes different section of society.

I’m finding myself walking around the supermarket amazed at sharp hikes in prices from one week to the next. So, if those of us experiencing this from a position of privilege are noticing, how must it feel for those on lower incomes? And by lower incomes, I don’t just mean those receiving benefits, not even minimum wage or living wage, but households who bring home the average wage.

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