CYP Now - How charities are doing more for less

The cost-of-living crisis means charities working with children and families have seen costs spiral as demand for services increases. Sector experts and charities discuss key challenges and solutions.

The same economic factors that make life more difficult for children, young people and families also have an impact on charities’ ability to deliver services to help them. Picture: marian stoev/EyeEm/Adobe Stock

By Charlotte Lamb, principal consultant for involvement and decision-making, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)

This year half a million more children will be growing up in poverty, unless their parents' wages somehow keep up with inflation, according to the Resolution Foundation think-tank. This is a stark reminder that the people hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis are those already on low incomes, who spend more of their money on food, housing and energy.

A recent Family Fund poll of families with disabled children found 40 per cent of respondents have gone hungry because there wasn't enough money for food and 92 per cent are struggling or falling behind on household bills.

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