‘It’s hard getting money to stretch’: single mothers say they need support

Women in Leicestershire on how soaring bills have hit their finances - and why one-off payments aren't enough

• Tories have shamed single parents and heaped financial pressure on them
• Half of all children in lone-parent families are in relative poverty
• I'm feeling the squeeze': single mothers on the living costs crisis

Kelly Ross, a single mother to her three-year-old son Charlie, has just found out her energy bills are tripling in price, from 94 a month to 292.

With summer holidays on the horizon, there's not much left in the pot for anything other than essentials, and she finds it hard to escape the constant burden of money worries.