Last year 70 families in Kensington & Chelsea received emergency financial help. Assessed as being under exceptional pressure, they received grants totalling £56,000 under the community care grant scheme run by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Ten young people in the same borough who were leaving care and not entitled to benefit received an average of £50 as a crisis loan. Over 100 applicants who had money or giros lost or stolen received a total of £6,000, again as a repayable loan.
In Barnsley the need was evidently greater. Over 400 families under pressure received grants to a value of £208,000. There were also 10 care leavers not entitled to benefit and over 600 loans to cover lost or stolen money.
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