Families ‘suicidal’ and at breaking point in lockdown
Parents and children are at breaking point in lockdown, with some suicidal, as families are struggling to pay bills, heat homes and put food on the table, Action for Children has warned.
The charity’s survey of frontline staff found that some isolated new mothers were even saying that they wished they hadn’t had their babies this [...]
Christmas exacerbates anxieties among children
Many parents are wishing they could cancel Christmas while children fear an unhappy family time, a study by Action for Children has found.
A poll of parents found that one in six would cancel Christmas if they could, rising even higher for those on Universal Credit for the first time this year. A survey of children [...]
As second lockdown begins, charities urge government to tackle child poverty
Prime minister Boris Johnson has been urged to do more to protect vulnerable children from a ‘winter of hunger and hardship’ by leading children’s charities.
Action for Children, Barnardo’s, NSPCC, NCB and The Children’s Society have united to call for the government to work with them to establish short and longer-term measures to help vulnerable children [...]
Government urged to provide adequate funding for Staying Put
The government must provide adequate funding to make sure all young people leaving foster care can benefit from the safety and stability that Staying Put offers, Action for Children has said.
A report from the children’s charity reveals that the policy designed to allow care leavers to remain with their foster families, Staying Put, is [...]
Children’s services were struggling financially before Covid, warns leading charities
Local authorities had to spend an additional £136 million on children’s social care between March and July, it has emerged.
New analysis from five leading children’s charities, Action for Children, Barnardo’s, the Children’s Society, NCB and the NSPCC, submitted to the Treasury, reveals that even before the pandemic hit these services were facing [...]
Families facing financial crisis during bleak winter ahead, warns charity
A ‘worrying new wave’ of families who were just about coping with the pressures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic will be heading for financial crisis, Action for Children has warned.
With winter, the end of furlough and a possible second COVID outbreak looming, thousands of families, already struggling to feed and clothe their children, could be [...]
