Over two million children in England are growing up in families where there are serious risks

Over two million children in England are growing up in families where there are serious risks The report, “The Children’s Commissioner’s 2018 Report into Childhood Vulnerability”, estimates that 2.1 million of England’s 11.8 million children – one in six – are living in families with risks so serious that they need some level of help. The study also warns that for 1.6 million of those vulnerable children, the support is effectively ‘invisible’ – we don’t know if they are actually getting any coordinated help, despite the difficulties they are growing up with. Some of the risks these children face include parents with mental health problems or parents who are alcoholics or have substance abuse problems. Children's Commissioner

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• 1.6 million children in serious risk households left to ‘fend for themselves’, finds report The Independent