New research suggests one in four children of working parents are planning to offer up their gift or pocket money to help their family cover the costs over Christmas.
Action for Children said that as a charity that delivers children’s services, it is instead increasingly having to provide emergency relief to families as the cost-of-living crisis deepens.
It found 26% of child respondents who receive pocket money or money for their birthday or Christmas from other family members said they will offer this to their parents to help them pay for things this Christmas.One little girl told a worker she is not asking for anything from Santa this year because it would make her mother ‘too sad’
The charity also surveyed 200 of its frontline staff and found 45% were extremely worried about the health and wellbeing of the children, young people and families they support due to their financial situation while 10% had donated their own household items or clothing to families.
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