According to the survey of 1,200 children’s workers, 60 per cent of children they are supporting are living in this lowest standard of poverty.
In total those surveyed support 200,000 children living in poverty.
This is a “significant increase” over the last two years, according to children’s charity Buttle UK which carried out the survey.
When it polled children’s workers in 2021 the proportion of children living in destitution was just over a third, and in 2022 the level was 45 per cent.
The charity said that the cost-of-living crisis is a major factor in the increase in destitution, where the level of poverty is so extreme children are going without essentials to eat, stay warm and clean.
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