CYP Now - Double cost-of-living support for vulnerable families, urges coalition

Government support to help vulnerable households tackle rising food and energy bills needs to be more than doubled, with priority given to families with children, a coalition of charities and campaigners has warned.

Foster carers say their allowance does not meet the needs of their child. Picture: Jeanette Teare/Adobe Stock

Charities including The Children’s Society, Save the Children and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have written to Conservative Party leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss urging them to bolster support for the most disadvantaged to meet rising inflation should they become the next Prime Minister.

While the government has already pledged £1,200 in support to vulnerable households this “is no longer sufficient” due to the record rate of inflation and families facing an average £2,800 increase in the cost of living to April next year, say the charities.

“This means that support should be at least doubled,” says their letter, which emphasises that the cost-of-living crisis is now a “national emergency”.

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