CYP Now - Cost-of-living crisis threatens ‘devastating’ impact on vulnerable children

Organisations working with families have warned of the “devastating” consequences the cost-of-living crisis is having on children’s health, education and wellbeing.

Increased levels of abuse amid the crisis could see more children enter care, experts have warned. Picture: Adobe Stock

Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of charity Become, the charity that supports looked-after children and young care leavers, said that more children facing the most “vulnerable, precarious situations” are likely to end up in care as a result of a cost-of-living crisis that will have “devastating and long-lasting consequences for those children who most need support and protection”.   

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