3,000,000 Hungry Kids in the UK

I'd be interested to know what percentage of those 3 million children have parents that drink and smoke. Give up a couple of packets of fags and a bottle of vodka each week and all of a sudden you've got £35 extra to feed the kids.
 
I was donig a social service job a while back, taking a young mum to counselling sessions. Initially I felt sorry for her, her dad had passed away suddenly and she was left bringing up her younger siblings as well as her own child. On the way she was on the phone to her social worker trying to sort out a food parcel so she could feed the children that weekend. My sympathy very quickly expired when she finished the call and started moaning that her sky tv was playing up and could I drop her at the shop so she could get 20 smokes!:eek:
 
Good to see lots of compassion and understanding for those that are less well off..... you can all get back to the daily mail now.
 
guest100718 said:
Good to see lots of compassion and understanding for those that are less well off..... you can all get back to the daily mail now.
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My thoughts exactly. No matter how you slice and dice it is not the kids fault. And they are the ones that are suffering.
 
Dasit said:
We now live in?


Kids been going hungry since we were cavemen
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Not in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland. Higher taxes, better welfare, no nukes, much more equal societies = happier countries.

Britain can't get past it's long gone days of Empire, industrialisation and importance in the world. Priorities are all skewed and country still run/owned by privileged few for the few.
 
guest100718 said:
Good to see lots of compassion and understanding for those that are less well off..... you can all get back to the daily mail now.
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interesting response.
Is no one allowed a view that does not agree with your humane opinion?
The DM comment does your response no good in my view,lazy cliched remark.
 
Blame the Empire? That's long gone.... we're a part of an economic powerhouse now...pure utopia, why would we leave?

One hungry kid is one too many. I wonder where they got their stats from? And I genuinely have no idea if that's accurate or rubbish... There will be a mix of reasons for it be it 3000 or 3 million.
 
My tot is always hungry, he loves milk and biscuits! Also wolfs down eggs but his fav is my Veggie Cheesy Mash with beans.

I remeber as a teen also always being hungry, parents struggled to keep the fridge full enough for my sister and I!

I would expect a little budgeting help would benefit many however. I spend a little time every weekend reviewing finances, just download from the online bank, paste into a spreadsheet and select a category. It then tells me if we are over or under budget for each category and overall

I think banks should offer these services for free with every online bank account. I am just lucky I have enough spreadsheet skills to knock up something to do it for me in a couple of clicks.

Couple this with poor time planning, poor nutritional knowledge and a degree of apathy and this would be the result.

I've got a challenge ahead of me, tot is just reaching the fussy eater strange, hopefully when he speaks it will become easier.

At least he loves fruit and veg at the moment!
 
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ScienceBoy said:
My tot is always hungry, he loves milk and biscuits! Also wolfs down eggs but his fav is my Veggie Cheesy Mash with beans.

I remeber as a teen also always being hungry, parents struggled to keep the fridge full enough for my sister and I!

I would expect a little budgeting help would benefit many however. I spend a little time every weekend reviewing finances, just download from the online bank, paste into a spreadsheet and select a category. It then tells me if we are over or under budget for each category and overall

I think banks should offer these services for free with every online bank account. I am just lucky I have enough spreadsheet skills to knock up something to do it for me in a couple of clicks.
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No need for this. Remove paid for TV services, cell phones, fags, drugs, BBand. Loads of money !!!
 
I dont know if 3,000,000 Children go hungry during the school holidays or not. I suspect the OP is making a hidden agenda that it's somehow the fault of the Tories and England, I would like to understand the stats correctly to see if this is a problem UK wide and if it is whether the OP would level the same comment to the Scottish Government.

The first policy I would enforce would be the use of benefit vouchers for food and utility bills along with an ID scheme when you used them. No more spending in Ciggies,Vodka, special brew, Sky TV, iPhones etc while the kids eat crisps and Pizza. Also the levels of Morbid Obesity among Parents and Children seem to indicate many are not going hungry. I know that junk food does not help with Obesity but it's not that expensive to buy healthy ingredients and cook a good meal, I suspect many don't want to or don't know how to do that.

We should not have hungry children in this country and should look carefully at the cause where it exists and find proper solutions.
 
SocketRocket said:
I dont know if 3,000,000 Children go hungry during the school holidays or not. I suspect the OP is making a hidden agenda that it's somehow the fault of the Tories and England, I would like to understand the stats correctly to see if this is a problem UK wide and if it is whether the OP would level the same comment to the Scottish Government.

The first policy I would enforce would be the use of benefit vouchers for food and utility bills along with an ID scheme when you used them. No more spending in Ciggies,Vodka, special brew, Sky TV, iPhones etc while the kids eat crisps and Pizza. Also the levels of Morbid Obesity among Parents and Children seem to indicate many are not going hungry. I know that junk food does not help with Obesity but it's not that expensive to buy healthy ingredients and cook a good meal, I suspect many don't want to or don't know how to do that.

We should not have hungry children in this country and should look carefully at the cause where it exists and find proper solutions.
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You do realise these parents you speak off are the offspring of mine and your generation, did we do enough to prepare or educate them?
 
maxfli65 said:
Not in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland. Higher taxes, better welfare, no nukes, much more equal societies = happier countries.

Britain can't get past it's long gone days of Empire, industrialisation and importance in the world. Priorities are all skewed and country still run/owned by privileged few for the few.
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Read this and learn it's not just the UK.
http://cphpost.dk/news/poverty-on-the-rise-in-denmark.html
 
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I agree one is too many. No-one should go hungry in 2017 in one of the richest nations on earth. You do have to wonder how this has happened though (and indeed if it is on the level the reports suggest). A bag of dried pasta and some tomatoes £2. I get that it's not great food but if we are saying people are starving... And I do get that £2 is a lot to some people, but with the systems we have in place I think it's fair to ask for £2 or so, how are we in this situation?
The question is how do you solve what should be a very solvable problem? My friend is a primary school teacher. Before free school meals for all kids came in they had some who paid and had a meal and some got theirs free (I guess means tested which is not nice for the kids). Others brought in their own lunch. When free meals came in every child wanted one. 2 sittings for lunch, higher cost etc etc. Whilst you could argue against this, you have to remember that even some of those that formally brought in their own lunch were poorly fed. OK they weren't starving but a bag of crisps and a mars bar is hardly right for a growing child.
The problem is there is no one size fits all solution and governments are typically not good at bespoke solutions. Some will be down to bad parenting or financial mismanagement and others will be in genuine need. Where the state takes over and becomes the nanny is a 21st century problem.
 
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