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A QUARTER of parents are struggling to provide enough food for their children, research revealed today, leading to repeated demands for an end to the two-child cap.

Research by charity Barnardo’s found that 25 per cent of Britain’s parents with children aged 18 and under struggled to provide sufficient food for their children over the last year due to the cost of living — up 5 per cent from October 2022.

It said this would represent around 3.4 million children, suggesting that the cost-of-living crisis’s impact continues to hit struggling families.

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