To help families who are most in need, Save the Children has launched its Crisis Grants campaign with Family Action and British Gas. The programme will deliver small grants of between £100 and £200 to some of the UK's poorest families as the financial crisis takes hold.
The recent release of the Households Below Average Income 2007/08 analysis from the Department for Work and Pensions showed there has been no move on the number of children coming out of poverty. Alarmingly, the data from that year showed an increase of 200,000 children in low income and material deprivation due to the rising costs of essentials such as food and fuel.
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