More than three million families are likely to cut back on food so they can pay their energy bills this winter. Yet as temperatures plunge, nearly two million children living in poverty are in families that are missing out on the Warm Home Discount – a vital support to helping families keep their heating on this winter.
Backed by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu and the Daily Mirror, the Children’s Society is highlighting the harsh reality for children growing up in cold homes and is calling on the government to take urgent action to tackle this problem.
At the Children’s Society we know that fuel poverty is a reality for many of the families we work with. Every day we see parents who have to spend their days in public buildings just to keep warm, only turning the heating on for a couple of hours a day when their children come home from school. Tragically, some families struggle even to do this.
