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• Children will pay the price for universal credit cut | Letters

  28-09-2021 18:00
  
  The benefit reduction will affect child welfare services and only cost more later down the line, says Emily Aklan, while Sabine Goodwin says food banks will struggle to copeYour article (Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – study, 26 September) highlights yet another example of how cuts where children’s welfare is concerned only lead to increased costs later down the line. The average cost of a child in care is just under £60,000 a year, but there are ot
  
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