2.6 Million Poor Children Miss Out on Crucial Fuel Poverty Support
February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017
LONDON, Feb. 23 -- The Children's Society issued the following news release:
Only 1 in 3 of UK's poorest children are benefitting from the government's Warm Home Discount, leaving as many as 2.6 million children out in the cold, new analysis from The Children's Society has found.
As temperatures plummeted as low as -10c in part of England and Wales this winter, the Children's Society estimates that two thirds of the UK's 3.9 million children living in poverty are mi . . .
Only 1 in 3 of UK's poorest children are benefitting from the government's Warm Home Discount, leaving as many as 2.6 million children out in the cold, new analysis from The Children's Society has found.
As temperatures plummeted as low as -10c in part of England and Wales this winter, the Children's Society estimates that two thirds of the UK's 3.9 million children living in poverty are mi . . .