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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan Bunn

Children’s charity to close after 81 years citing ‘pernicious economic context’

PA Wire

A pioneering national children’s charity is to close after 81 years of campaigning, as it warned many other similar organisations were facing the same “mathematical impossibilities” of rising costs.

Announcing the closure, Children England chief executive Kathy Evans said she had “profound concern” for all charities and public services  in the current “pernicious economic context”.

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