Inflation is squeezing households and there are reports that high food prices are causing children to eat more school meals to be fed. One in eight single parents with low income have had difficulty feeding themselves or their family.
Save the Children believes that more needs to be done to ensure that all children in Sweden have a reasonable standard of living. No one questions parental responsibility, but there is also a state responsibility to comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, says Sofia Rönnow Pessah, adviser, children in socio-economic vulnerability.