Mrs Enyon-Richards said as Christmas was approaching, clients were finding themselves in debt with door-to-door sales trucks selling goods with high interest.
"We try to empower the clients and if that's not the case, we can ring these salespeople on their behalf and facilitate or make sure they are operating properly under consumer law," she said.
Project manager for Te Arawa Whanau Ora Collective, Mala Grant, welcomed the report as it was evidence of what workers in the field saw every day. The collective's nine health and social providers aim to work with individual families to help them manage and take responsibility for their development.
"Our children's team and Whanau Ora are seeing a high level of need. More children are being presented at hospital with a large group of children admitted during bronchiolitis season," Ms Grant said.
"We're seeing them coming through our Convenient Care Clinic with skin conditions such as eczema, school sores, scabies. Skin conditions are one of the indicators of poverty and there could be many factors influencing it, they're not getting enough nutrition, housing conditions - a lot of people staying in a house."
She said child poverty was not isolated and it was about uplifting the whole family.
"We're seeing families who are being put off work with these shutdowns, it's going to have a huge impact on the child."
St Vincent de Paul Rotorua was running out of household furniture as there had been huge demand on beds, blankets and linen. Donations were needed.
"We get a lot of requests for food, we've had four requests since 10am [yesterday] from families with at least three children or more," area president Claire Ryan said.
The charity organisation had to recently stop its Fulfill Van due to funding but was providing hot drinks, sandwiches and fruit to Fordlands and Pleasant Heights twice a week.
Mrs Ryan said the charity was feeding up to 100 hungry children each night.