NATIONAL charity Turn2us has discovered that 74% of low income families in the South-West struggled with energy bills in the past year with children’s health and well-being harmed by strained family finances.
The knock-on effect is that 74% of families say it is negatively impacting the health of their children and 61% say school work suffers due to cold homes .
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