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Financial support for low-income families introduced by Mayor

Fahad Redha

January 15, 2026
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Financial support for low-income families introduced by Mayor

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a new £2.2 million programme to help low-income families access financial support. The Family Financial Resilience Partnership will provide “free, independent advice to thousands of families with children on a wide range of issues, including benefits, housing, childcare, immigration, disability, and employment,” according to a press release from city hall.

City Hall will work in collaboration with a dozen local authorities, London Citizens Advice, and the London Legal Support Trust, with the £2.2 million funding hoping to “bolster support for Londoners by enabling services to train more staff and increase capacity at Best Start Family Hubs and Children’s Centres.“

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The programme is expected to help over 17,500 families in its first year, allowing them to access around £8 million in financial support which would otherwise be unclaimed. This comes as finds that just over a third of children in London, around 700,000, are living in poverty after housing costs.

The Family Financial Resilience Partnership is the Mayor’s latest programme to “help Londoners secure the support that they are entitled to,” says City Hall. Over the past three years, the Mayor’s income maximisation campaigns and advice services have allowed over 130,000 Londoners claim over £94 million in financial support that they were entitled to.

“However,” says City Hall, “with more than £4 billion in benefits still going unclaimed across the capital, too many people continue to miss out on vital help that could make a significant difference to their lives.”

This builds on the Mayor’s wider work to support families with the cost-of-living including his “unprecedented” funding of free school meals in the capital’s state primary schools that is saving families hundreds of pounds annually while “positively influencing the health and wellbeing of children and strengthening school communities. There is also the Holiday Hope initiative which provides food, activities, and support to children and young people during the school holidays.

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