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Council funding cuts leave families impacted by Covid-19 ‘without support’
Government cuts to local authority budgets have left families affected by coronavirus with “nowhere to turn” in a financial crisis, The Children’s Society has warned.
New research by the charity finds that spending on local emergency schemes designed to support those facing financial hardship has fallen by 86 per cent (£250m) in under a decade.
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