April 15, 2011
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![A family of eleven share a two bedroomed house. This bedroom is shared by four teenage boys.](https://www.rachelpalmer.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/child-poverty/rep_0930.jpg "Barbara lives with her six children, her parents and her sister’s two children in a two bedroom house in Manchester. She says, \\"It\'s difficult living here. The house is too small. My mum sleeps in the living room with my dad. In one bedroom I sleep with my three small boys and my daughter. My boys sleep in the double bed, my daughter sleeps in the single bed and I sleep on the mattress on the floor. We don’t get much sleep. In the small bedroom my sister’s son sleeps on the bed and the other three boys sleep on the floor. I don’t think it’s good that teenagers are sharing one room. The children are tired during the day\".")
![Julie Henry](https://www.rachelpalmer.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/child-poverty/rep_0565.jpg "With increasing unemployment and cuts in welfare payments, Save the Children fears that even more children will be forced into severe poverty in the coming months without urgent and concerted action. Julie says \\"All these cut backs the government are making are worrying me. Even though I economise I have to economise twice as hard now to try and manage. Other parents in the same position as me are probably struggling the same way as me.\\"")
![Julie Henry holding a pair of her son\'s shoes which have holes in them. She has the difficult decision of whether to buy new shoes or sending her children on a holiday. She doesn\'t want her children to be wearing shoes with holes.](https://www.rachelpalmer.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/child-poverty/rep_0550.jpg "Julie, a single mother living in Westminster with four children, struggles to pay the bills and provide for her children. She says, \\"Being a mother of four and a single parent is a hard juggling act to make ends meet. My four children have been looking forward to a day trip to Skegness all year but this year we won’t be going because the money will be going to shoes and paying the bills\\"")
![Ashmahan\'s electricity metre](https://www.rachelpalmer.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/child-poverty/rep_0786.jpg "Families in severe poverty are getting by on less than £134 per week for a lone parent with one child. Ashmahan, a single mother looking after her four year old son explains how she balances her finances, \\"For electricity I use a (prepaid) key. I can top it up every week or every two weeks, it depends on the weather. Sometimes to save money what I do is I don’t use the washing machine. I clean my son’s clothes by hand and we wear a lot of clothes at home because I want to keep the electricity bill low so we don’t use the heating all the time\\"")
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