Charities across London are sounding the alarm as the cost-of-living crisis threatens to increase the number of children in poverty in the capital. London’s children, charities warn, may be facing the toughest winter ever.
The cost of living crisis is set to affect the most vulnerable in the capital during the colder months. While people across the United Kingdom are facing a winter scarred by the crisis, children may be the ones who are most affected, according to London child poverty charities.
600,000 children across the capital – or more than one in four London children – live in poverty, according to the Greater London authority.
Londoners facing slip into poverty
And with inflation rates reaching a forty-year-high and no end in sight to the cost-of-living crisis, charities are worried that the coming months may spell one of London’s families’ toughest winters ever.
James Burton, project director at Feed London, a charity aiming to help young people in those London boroughs with the highest rates of child poverty in the UK, told City News that the cost of living crisis risked lunging more Londoners into poverty. Burton also expects the crisis to affect charities’ work, with many relying on donations from the general public which could dry up as people’s budgets grow tighter.
Charities not convinced by government response
With the cost-of-living crisis looming over household this winter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt yesterday said that he understood families’ struggles and that the government would prioritise help to the most vulnerable households.
Some charities, however, aren’t convinced by the government’s efforts. Several organisations currently hosting the London Challenge Poverty Week warned that many more Londoners could be drawn into poverty due to the “erosion of the social security safety.”
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Charities across London are sounding the alarm as the cost-of-living crisis threatens to increase the number of children in poverty in the capital. London’s children, charities warn, may be facing the toughest winter ever.
The cost of living crisis is set to affect the most vulnerable in the capital during the colder months. While people across the United Kingdom are facing a winter scarred by the crisis, children may be the ones who are most affected, according to London child poverty charities.
600,000 children across the capital – or more than one in four London children – live in poverty, according to the Greater London authority.
Londoners facing slip into poverty
And with inflation rates reaching a forty-year-high and no end in sight to the cost-of-living crisis, charities are worried that the coming months may spell one of London’s families’ toughest winters ever.
James Burton, project director at Feed London, a charity aiming to help young people in those London boroughs with the highest rates of child poverty in the UK, told City News that the cost of living crisis risked lunging more Londoners into poverty. Burton also expects the crisis to affect charities’ work, with many relying on donations from the general public which could dry up as people’s budgets grow tighter.
Charities not convinced by government response
With the cost-of-living crisis looming over household this winter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt yesterday said that he understood families’ struggles and that the government would prioritise help to the most vulnerable households.
Some charities, however, aren’t convinced by the government’s efforts. Several organisations currently hosting the London Challenge Poverty Week warned that many more Londoners could be drawn into poverty due to the “erosion of the social security safety.”
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