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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

Children ‘going hungry and having pocket money stolen due to economic abuse’

Economic abuse is a ‘hidden crisis harming children’, charity Surviving Economic Abuse said (picture posed by model/Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

Children are suffering the impacts of economic abuse within families, including having their pocket or birthday money stolen or going without food, according to research for a charity.

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), which commissioned the research, said it reveals “the hidden crisis harming children across the UK”.

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