This month the Childhood Trust warned that cuts to youth services and charity grants – which disproportionately affect low income families – will result in children across the country going hungry this summer.
It is estimated that three million children in the UK are at risk of going hungry in the school holidays, with the long summer break hitting families particularly hard.
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