Organisations working with families have warned of the “devastating” consequences the cost-of-living crisis is having on children’s health, education and wellbeing.
Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executiveof charity Become, the charity that supports looked-after children and young care leavers,said thatmore children facing the most “vulnerable, precarious situations” are likely to end up in care as a result of a cost-of-livingcrisis that will have “devastating and long-lasting consequences for those children who most need support and protection”.
