A Belfast paediatrician says she fears what the winter will bring amid cost of living pressures.
A children's doctor has said she fears what the winter will bring amid cost of living pressures on families in Northern Ireland.
"Children don't really have a voice, so it's up to us as advocates to speak for them and say that this cannot continue, we can't have our children - 26% currently - living in poverty," she told Radio Ulster's Talkback programme. "Most of those families are working families, most of those families are people who have good jobs, but the way the economy is set up they can't cope, they can't meet their basic needs."She said other countries had taken steps to help children living in poverty.
"They're not really doing anything about it. We've been waiting for a strategy which child poverty would be a part of.
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