Cost of living crisis: Struggling UK families ‘reusing nappies and watering down baby formula’ to survive
having to sleep in drawers, with 70% of parents supporting children that have no safe place to sleep.Nearly nine out of ten banks also said they had supported families unable to pay bills, while 79% said that children were being forced to live in unheated homes. Some 73% said they supported families struggling to feed their infant children. One child, aged seven, was sleeping in a travel cot because their family couldn’t afford a bed.
“We have to limit how much electricity we can use in the house so it’s more or less just reading, when it gets dark we’ll put the TV on and the lights back on. While my stepdaughters are at school we turn everything off, the boiler, everything gets shut down until I have to cook or run a bath for everyone.The uncertainty is stressing me out. I’m dreading winter.
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