Stealing to eat: Hunger crisis for children not eligible for free school meals but living in poverty
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2022
- An escalating hunger crisis among children in families who live in poverty but are not eligible for free school meals can be revealed in a joint investigation by the Evening Standard and the Independent.
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I used to sit at lunch and when asked why I was not eating I'd always say I was not hungry. Then one girl started to say she didn't like fruit and would give me her apple each day. I was able to eat for about 6 months an apple. I was so sad when she moved. I wish all children had something to eat at school.
kids are so sweet and perceptive 🤍
that’s so heartbreaking
I would’ve never let my kids go to school without something to eat ,surely a cheap loaf of bread and make a some kind of sandwich for them is a parent’s responsibility even if it means beg steel or borrow,but do do nothing at all is sad !
@@connieh6136 I totally agree my kids have never been hungry. Unfortunately in the mid 70's and early 80's I was not the only kid that was hungry at school. Growing up I didn't realize how poor we were. When I got older it hit me. The popcorn nights were done because we didn't have real food to eat.
@@connieh6136 A loaf of own brand bread 48p a large bag porridge 90p enough for three weeks 7 banana's 77p can beans 26p no excuse for a child to go to school hungry you are right.
Stop having more kids when you can't even afford one
In Finland, school meals have been free for ALL children since 1943...
Thank you for sharing that. It is a good example as Finland is considered to have an excellent education system.
This doesn't surprise me, as I've read Finland has the best education system in the world for years in a row now. Props to you guys on that.
too bad theres not enough space in Finland for everybody..😞
When I did live in the UK - many, many years ago, we had free lunches every school day. I am not sure when this stopped - seems so sad to me.
@@clarissagafoor5222 I also had free meals and it is absolutely disgusting to think they have discontinued them as there are so many scenarios today as to why children do go to school hungry , such as job loss ,and sadly some parents do not simply care they are to busy enjoying themselves they forget they have children goodness in my day a mother was home cooking and cleaning all day while the father was out working my father worked two jobs so my mum could stay home with us prior to him losing his employment due to closures in the
sixties mind you it was easier to find new employment back then,
I find it ridiculous we enforce school uniforms and yet we don’t enforce school meals, parents are forced to pay almost £100 for a uniform & replace it if it gets destroyed, when that money could go towards their meals instead.
Wow, it's worse in the UK than the states! How come the government and the royals don't help their citizens?
You can't compare school uniforms to school meals. School uniforms are no where near £100, and it tends to be a once a year thing. And you can't force parents to pay for school meals if they can't.
@@deltaechomusicnh555 get rid of uniforms for all states schools
School uniforms aren’t almost £100, unless they have to have the school logo. Most schools only require kids to have the cardigan/jumper with the logo on, the rest you can get from Asda or something.
That headmaster is a really great guy 🙏🏽 Why aren't people like him running the country, and the people who ostensibly are 'running the country' mounting the scaffold 🤬😢🤮
I agree with you totally.
The person that is running the country is from a favoured group, come to Canada 🇨🇦 Toronto and you will see this group gets everything with little to no effort, and they certainly have no love for anyone but themselves worldwide.
The 15k that he is spending for the children who are not eligible he is probably saving more than that in less disruption in the classroom.
Well done Sir.
Law must be changed so the meals are provided all school children. This will eliminate hunger and feeling shame of being poor in school children. It’s shameful in country like UK school children are going hungry.
Agree. Part of the reason for school uniforms was to remove the have/have not dynamic in clothing. Yet people tolerate a have/have not dynamic in food?
And snacks. Apples, oranges fruit yogurts, savoury snacks. Milk and orange juice.
@@zippymufo9765 and even then, you can tell kids who can afford a uniform Vs those who can't. Children have to wear ratty, dirty uniforms that are three years old and very ill fitting as a result because they've made uniforms so extremely expensive. My uniform was £250 for one set of everything
@@zippymufo9765 I went to a state school in an area with multiple private schools. School uniforms meant you could easily see which school (and hence how much money) everyone had. Uniforms are just another burden for poor families. I don't see any benefits
I live in the US (Florida) and if they have enough kids in a school that would be on free lunch ( I think its 45%) they just have the whole school have free lunch and breakfast. My oldest sons school is like this we can't even pay for lunch if we want too they don't have the register out anymore. I think this is the third year they are doing this it's kind of nice but also sad because we live in a nice area and I'm surprised at how many of our schools are like this now.
Hunger is a terrible thing to go through
School meals should be free just like meals are free in hospitals and prisons. Jeez, even society's convicts get fed AND 3x a day
In the UK?
That’s a very good point!
Never thought of that. What a shame. Convicts over children
Agreed
Just include the food in the school budgets
Me and my friend used to steal food from the school canteen because her parents never gave her pack lunch, or money to buy lunch. The school would have just allowed her to go all day without eating anything, everyday. I just think that is really sad, tbh. I became friends with her on our third year in school, so she had already gone two years without anything.
I can not believe we are taking about UK in 21st century !!?
I had a friend at primary school like that. She use to come to school with no shoes and no underwear. 😭💔 no one brushed her hair out . I remember her stealing clothes from the lost property . ❤️
@@j.p.9295 Uk a fancy 3rd world
It's not the school that let her go hungry but the parent
@@ifeifesi The parent absolutely was the primary cause, but the school allowed it. As far as I'm aware, they never once spoke to the parent about it.
Nobody should be going hungry in this country or anywhere for that matter, but the fact that there are children going to school hungry and going to bed hungry is an abomination.
Charity shops are very busy now, if you have to pay £4,350 on Energy Bills then no one will have any money. Basically working for nothing a zero wage🤔
@D C there are only so many hours in a day, we’re talking about children here
@D C are you stupid, do you really think people aren’t cutting back at all, especially with rampant inflation and bills?
I’ve taught in private UK schools as well as mainly in the state sector. As parents pay for their children’s lunches they are truly amazing…all freshly cooked, by chefs, nutritionally balanced, with cake mid-afternoon, and fruit snacks in the morning. Without proper nutrition there is no equal access to education…hungry children can’t learn, malnourished brains can’t learn, worried brains can’t learn.
I’m in the state sector again, with my class of 28, some with learning challenges which in the past would’ve meant a SEND school with specialist teachers, 13 native languages, poverty and social challenges…and basic quality food, carb heavy, no snack after ks1, no milk after ks1, and my heart breaks for those going home to similar or nothing for tea. Already I can see the effects of their carb rich diet, some children underweight, some children overweight. There is no “levelling out” until access to good quality food is equalised…being hungry is not a good way to start the day.
If it were up to me I’d take away child benefit, install kitchens into school again, employ cooks and I’d provide children with a good meal every day made with good ingredients, for those with less I’d provide breakfast, I’d give every child access to fruit at playtime and milk if they wanted it, and snack in the afternoon. I’d provide school uniform for every child, a winter coat every year and shoes which fit. I’d reinstate the school dental service, school hearing and sight tests and school nurses. And I’d normalise school meals…none of the children in the private schools took packed lunches because the school meals were so good…they could choose sandwiches if they wanted…but they didn’t. Good health is laid down in the foundations of our youth. My heart breaks for the children who go to school hungry and feel that they have to steal food…life is supposed to have progressed since the Victorian days!
I get you sentiments but there are rules on how much a school lunch provided by the government can cost and it is pretty low......Yes, all kids should be provided meals but i the are carb heavy then so what? The meals served for school lunches in India are mainly dahl and rice.......Very cheap, very tasty, Dahl has protein, rice is carbs and they mix it with tomato and onion......If this is my often go to meal then it can be their too.......I am happy if all school kids get provided and meal but there also has to be a tight government budget on it toootherwise ALL tax-payers will have to pay more.
@@karenmbbaxter I know the financial restrictions on school meal providers which why I said the private school parents pay more per meal: it’s also why I suggested taking away child benefit and replacing it with universal free school meals.
It’s all short term finances isn’t? Better eating habits, a better diet in childhood will help circumvent a greater cost to the health services in the future.
My main point is that education is not a level playing field simply because children are malnourished at a time when healthy brain development is vital for their future health. All tax payers will pay more as a consequence. Tax payers are paying for the services we all use … this government especially, seems to think giving me a penny back for every £ I earn will improve my life vastly, and it won’t! I’d rather that 1p in the £ went to support extra school funding, policing, border control etc … better services benefit us all. Even if everything else were equal, school funding, home conditions, holidays, extra-curricular were all the same, poor nutrition will still have an effect on long term outcomes. Strikes me that that ought to be easiest thing to level up. Wrt carb heavy…an over reliance on pasta, potato etc … nothing wrong with balanced carbs, but as carbs are converted into sugar which affects insulin levels, sets poor eating habits too. Look at the French school meal offerings … even dahl and rice would be better … than white pasta macaroni cheese with little cheese and lots of white flour to thicken the sauce.
Ha! one of my classes when I was in junior school on a council estate in the 60's had 43 pupils. All our parents were hard up but they all paid for their kid's dinners.
We had plenty of thick kids too. I suppose they sent the ones who were too retarded to learn much to special schools . I only remember a couple of those
@@carolramsey6287 me too…my mum couldn’t afford school dinner so I went home instead to a crisp sarnie or on a good day cheese on toast. All white working class kids in training for the local heavy industries. No cultural diversity, few children with SEND needs and couple of children who needed to learn to use a bar of soap. Dad worked six days a week and went to college in the evenings; no car, no phone and no colour Tv. Mum didn’t work but stayed at home to look after me and my sister; I remember the feeling of not having enough, of not feeling able to ask for anything and for the excitement of a pack of colouring pencils for Christmas. I would not wish those feelings of not enough on anyone.
There is enough in this country to feed everyone, and feed everyone well. The elderly should also be better taken care of…if they so wished. Poor nutrition in the UK is unforgivable.
All meals should be free in all infant/secondary schools and family allowance put up to £50.00 per week per child ...plenty for those at the top.
This head teacher is right there needs to be free school dinners for every child at every school in UK every where
What a fantastic headmaster. We need many more teachers and headmasters like him to save our education system and our children.
This makes me tearful.
How has it come to this?
Let's stop feeling bad. Vote the Tories out. Write to your MP, bollock them, shame them into action.
@@tessellatiaartilery8197 Well said. It's now time for action.
I was a free lunch kid ( in the US). I remember the terror of a new lunch lady asking for lunch money. I told her I didn't have any and I just put my in. She told me there wasn't any money in the account and I can still remember grabbing the edges of my tray thinking she was going to make me give it back. One of the other lunch ladies heard what was going on and she said it was ok for me to go. I'm 36 now and still remember feeling small. No kid at any school, anywhere should not be offered free food.
Even to ask a kid shocking
I believe that every child on this Earth should always have a meal no matter what. It's sickens me when over here in the US millions of pounds of food are being thrown away when families who are hungry could be eating this. It goes to show you we have a society that is very selfish and needs to change. God is watching all of us.
So what if food is thrown away? It will eventually be eaten by microorganisms, ants, and insects. They too are hungry and need food for their survival. They too are living beings.
Just because our parents scrape the minimum doesn’t mean we are doing well. Wages haven’t gone up but everything else has so I’m glad it’s being acknowledged that there are families who are struggling and not eligible due benefits.
People need to admit that the problem is structural
This is a world wide problem. The churches and foodbanks are feeding a lot of them in my area.
I think when you go to these food banks, all food banks, you should have someone sit down with you, go through your finances and find out were you can get help.
Also if you smoke and drink, you should be offered free quit smoking kits.
People love free. I'm afraid there are many people who are taking advantage
This is too sad. Parents on low incomes are struggling.
Very lovely caring headmaster.
Do we really all think the Tory government care about poor kids not eating or getting an education ? I've got news for you.
Exactly, people need to wake-up
After covid the quality of school meals has gone down drastically. My child comes home saying the food is not only inedible but the portion size is tiny which is so sad as I rely on the free school meals to ensure they have a hot dinner at least once a day. They say it's not fresh, they give tinned fruit, artificial mashed potato's, and the only vegetable they get is some grated carrots. I mean what has the government come to that children can't even be fed a piece of fruit or a proper potato. I am absolutely appalled, and when I've questioned it, no one has taken me seriously. I am so sad and frustrated for all the children going hungry 😭
Ask your king to help. After all he is a billionnaire. And all the family are very rich.
I feel your pain, no kid should have to go hungry!!😧😢
What you should do though is to grow some vegatables and donate them to a school lunch club so at least the kids will get some fresh food!!😆😊☺
Here in America we face the same situation. Schools order foods from warehouses and are lucky to get 1/2 the order. And many time the quality delivered is inedible but sometimes still served.
Why don't you make your child food then and stop relying on other people to feed them. The government didn't have any part in the process of making that child, so stop complaining.
@@rtube420 please don't judge people before you know them or their life. I shouldn't have to explain my life story to you. I am disabled and was disabled after I had my child. The father of the child became extremely abusive after the birth of the child and we had to leave for our safety, so none of these things I could predict. I have lost everything in my life and struggle to provide, but not out of choice. I am highly educated and worked from 15, but unfortunately due to life's hurdles this doesn't matter. Never assume about someone. I love my child more than anything and they will never go without love or food but sometimes I struggle
I had a friend that shared her egg sandwich with me and I still remember her kindness.
Great piece. Wish I'd had a headmaster like that at school, what a great guy
I was the recipient of many a low cost , free school meal after the death of my father. The breakfasts, especially made a big difference in my ability to concentrate and do well on my studies. It is a shame for school systems to let kids who can't afford a meal at home, to be unable to get a meal. In essence , it's torture.
But they have enough money to support the Royal family.
Who are happy to take the money instead of insisting it helps feed children in need.
The little girl at 1:00 is a beauty, look how her smile lights up the atmosphere.
Her smile is so sweet, if she was at the old people's home, their depression would vanish....
there was this boy in my school who didt have money, clothes, or a car - his mum - and his dad had died. with both of my older brothers that went to that school aswell we had more uniform than we needed and was just going to chuck it away. the boy constantly got in trouble for “not wearing the right thing” but when i went to talk to him he told me about what happened. i instantly felt terrible as i grew up with a rather wealthy family with living with luxury’s that most kids in my school didn’t have like a big house in the middle of no where. that night i told my mum and she asked if i wanted to go out shopping with her to get some food for him and his family. i was really exited that we were in a position where we could. so we went to m&s and bought essentials and also so fun things like percy pigs and crisps. i still remember 10 years later his face when he saw everything. he gave me a great big hug, he went to the bathroom and changed into the correct uniform. i haven’t met anyone more grateful in a long time!! ❤❤
Yep, I have seen this happening as a teacher and it breaks my heart
Why don't they end this once and for all and just include meals in the school budgets
And it doesn't help when food companies are shrinking food and charging more for it. Deliberately starving people.
Food bank Britain seems to have let too many different nationalities in judging by this.
I remember being a child and having to exist on nothing all day, could not learn or run around, I see pictures of myself as a child and it is just trauma. I never recovered and at the age of 21, I can barely work, I am still underweight.
You won't eat now?
What a lovely headmaster how he is with the little ones is wonderful x
When I was at school it was a stigma to be on free school meals . This has to be stopped too. School meals CAN be done for "FREE" if they are cooked in school, not farmed out to some company at huge cost to the school.
When my dad got a very very small pay rise I got taken off free school meals and for the most part went hungry and yes you do get brain fog where you are not taking anything in .
I knew a boy in my year who would do homework for other kids for a sandwich, he even got bullied for that.I am talking 30+ years ago...nothings changed and I thought those days were over.
I hope that boy have grown up to never worry about money again. He seems like a decent kid who understands hardwork.
All children should have a free school meal, there could be a system for donations for parents who can afford.
@D C it's hard when it's out of one pocket.
Or taking out of a federal budget.
How does government expect educated individuals to support the economy if you can't learn anything while you're starving.
This is so awful. Kids need to eat.
Feed all these children.
I agree , just because you have money doesn't mean you feed your kid. All kids deserve free food and education.
The head teacher what a fantastic man he is❤️
I am shattered, my heart breaks for these children and for the first time in my life I realize that I was one of them too. I never think of it and even as a child, like other people have mentioned, I’d never say anything because I didn’t want to add to the burden. Food should be available throughout school to all students. Quality food especially because even those who do get by at home, it will most often be unhealthy and not very nutritious food. There would be less children reaching adulthood with eating disorders or already overweight fighting a losing battle. Better able and happier people to join society, the savings in health spending alone would more than make up for the school meals.
I remember in the 1970s my mum put money in an envelope which I gave to my teacher on monday morning for school dinners for 1 week. She once forgot and they refused myself and my sisters dinner for that day.
Sounds like the criteria for allocating free school meals is woefully out of touch with the real world !
So Rishis pool costs over twice what it costs to feed an entire primary school lunch for a year
It’s ridiculous that the government is happy to supply the needs of the illegal immigrants rather than to supply the needs of the poor children or families in this Country. They are happy to give the money to the international aide but the elderly are struggling and die with the cold weather because they are worried about their electric bills. That’s sad 😢
The problem of that is immigration is on going , immigrants think that roast chickens fall from the sky on to your plate every day for dinner here in UK. They are surprised when they see what's really going on .
My children get free school meals and we are so Very grateful for these meals 😊 ❤
I like the headmaster what he is an angel on earth
In Sweden all children have free lunch at school. That makes them more healthy and more alert to go through the schoolday and it makes them in the long run get good grades and a better future.
That school head teacher is really cool......I wish my kids went there.
Beyond sad and unacceptable
thought it was up to parents to provide for the kids meals and take responsibility. not government
I'm ashamed of this country. When I was a kid during the late 60s early to mid 70s . The free school dinners and milk where sometimes the only meal I used to eat all day. So instead of going forward where going backwards.
It is all politics and greed.....and the World Economic Forum.
Well said. People need to wake up!!!!
Many angels on earth on this program
In Pennsylvania they made free breakfast for every kid free.
I was a hungry child sixty years ago. I know what it’s like to have my stomach burn with hunger and my feet freeze with cold because my parents couldn’t afford to buy us strong winter shoes. WTF has the Tories done to this country?
Got money for wars, no money for the poor….😢
Have you seen that most food banks in the UK are in the cities and not many are outside in the countryside.
Crazy how many ppl just breed knowing full well they can't afford kids....
I know right, it’s so selfish. I feel sorry for the kids.
Crazy how circumstances can change. Like when someone decides to have kids years ago the could have afforded them. You know after the government greed puts the economy down the toilet and blames poor people.
@@celtichound9889 You know full well you need to be financially stable for at least the next 20yrs if your gonna be responsible for the human beings you choose to bring into the world right ? It would appear from looking at the world that the poorer ppl are the more puppies they squeeze out and I just can't understand why ppl in any country would just keep having kids with no security or way of supporting them with the even the bare minimum ..Not that I don't feel sorry for ppl struggling but I myself was always wanted kids but was terrified of been responsible for kids knowing that the lifestyle I enjoy just isn't practical or stable enough to know I can feed and clothe kids for the next 20yrs so I have always been careful and honest with my partners because I fully understand the money,emotional and time cost of supporting kids on the most basic level let alone kids in a western society where the cost providing the luxuries kids class as standard..Pretty much everyone I know just got caught out and then just had to halt any dreams,aspirations and freedom to manage the best they can...
The US started the The Community Eligibility Provision, if more than 40% of the kids at the school get reduced price lunch, they just give free meals to all the kids. It would be better if it were universal free lunch but at least it's something.
This is news to me. That's good. but I agree, it shouldn't even be an issue. It should be part of schooling. I recall learning some cooking in school, I think it was part of home economics and Money. I've seen Japanese school where the children often help tend the gardens that their lunches are coming from and sometimes help to prep the meals. The staff does most of the cooking, but the kids help to serve in the classroom. I wonder why something like that couldn't be ubitquitous. I know kids have different food allergies and stuff but there's got to be something they could eat at the school if it were provided. and if the family didn't want that they could provide a home meal, but no child would be without a meal just because Mummy or Daddy forgot to pack the lunch that day.
For all the people out there who judge what some of those parents wear, their hair or whatever… please stop! From my own experience, we had SOME toys or clothes that were more expensive than any of the rich kids on my street would have ever had, because both my parents worked odd jobs for a myriad of people, I’ve met so many freaking people in my life you’d not believe, from lawyers, to farmers, people from ‘abroad’ that would come and pay for renovations/repairs for their elderly etc and would pass things down, take this or that to your kids, even well fare clothes would sometimes be really good if they fit. A woman with her hair done, could have her sister l or a friend do that for a living and so she did that or nails for her, she didn’t pay a penny, returned the favour with another favour. There is a LOT of this going on in these circles, that doesn’t mean these people have a penny or food for themselves or their children. Also from personal experience, you’d have guys beg to buy you another drink and most drinks, would give you cigarettes but God forbid you ask for money to buy a bread for your kids, which would be cheaper than one drink. Most people can’t stand someone getting anything that might get them ahead, they are ok with giving someone drinks until they fall over but buy your own food, if I help you pay for it then you’re up that much money that you could spent on something else they might not have or thought of and it would eat at their soul. This is the stark reality of life, so don’t judge!
School throw away left over foods so sad not feed these poor kids without food
No free meals here in Australia, you can only buy from the canteen, payed in cash on the day!
Adults can make their own decisions but kids didn't ask to be here.
What a lovely Headmaster.
Can anyone enlighten me why kids go hungry when a packet of large Kelloggs Cornflakes cost £3?
Adds up but regardless it really should be a top priority on your budget. So bad money budgeting?
@@cjjk9142 Totally agree. So these parents need the Nanny State.
No children should go hungry.
No adults should bring children into the world they can’t afford.
@@conbro0985 exactly I agree 💯
NOBODYS GOING TO LIKE THIS BUT IF YOU CANT AFFORD THEM DONT HAVE THEM PLUS ALL KIDS IN UK GET Eldest or only child £21.80
Additional children £14.45 per child PER WEEK I THINK THATS ENOUGH TO MAKE A PACK LUNCH.
God help these families. No child must go hungry ❤
Also let us all try to not waste food. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I can solve this crisis immediately. Jack rates to 10% base rate now! Job done!
Furthermore schools need to postpone school uniforms. Give me the pm job!
But why do people keep having more kids when they can’t afford to feed them? Yes the government is at fault here, that goes without saying. But also the parents need to take some responsibility, I’m talking about the ones that are crying showing empty cupboards saying they can’t feed their kids or heat their home, and saying it’s been that way for a long time, but are pregnant or planning more kids. Why?? Why put children through that hardship if you as a parent cannot provide for them like everyone has to do with their kids?
Shut up sometimes it happens to people by accident even when protection is used
No child should ever go hungry. School lunch should be free for everyone, but at the least they should raise the income cap because £7,400 for a family of 2 is ludicrous.
£7,400 is around €/$8,500. I can't imagine anyone supporting just themselves on that, let alone themself and a child. I also did some brief research on the eligibility requirements outside of what is mentioned in the video, and it seems that this cap does not increase with household size-- so a single mom of 1 has the same income cap as a single mom of 3 to qualify for free lunch, which makes no sense.
Free lunch programs in the US cap family at income at around $33k for a family of 2 (the exact amount varies by state), though families that earn a bit more can still qualify for reduced-price lunch. The income cap increases by household size. Districts will also just make school lunch (and breakfast) free for an entire school if the poverty rate for that district is relatively high (>40%).
This Headmaster is an hero xx
It’s the same crisis here in the US and no one really talks about it
Its happening all over Europe but its only the UK who think we have a problem.
There kids stealing out off other kids pat lunches and this isn't fair on other children who get sent to school with lunches .. I understand there hungry but things need to be put in place fir these kids ..government are failing these families and children unbelievable
Don't have kids if you can't afford them.
Who are you referring to ....
@@shedevil9169 Regarding these people having multiples of children and can't afford to feed them. Furthermore, a packet of a large Kellogs Cornflakes only costs £3 so where is excuse that they can't afford to feed them. They can afford to buy cigarettes, alcohol, do their nails, hair and tattoos done yet can't feed their kids. They lack parental skills. The so called parents needs to arrested for child abuse.
Yh I suppose ya right but I have worked in schools and in some cases you are right .. but in another it's not for all parents ya see
@@shedevil9169 I know am right. So therefore these so called parents needs a lifeskill co-ordinator to come into their lives and teach them how to be good parents. Teach them how to prioritise about their kids. Accompany the parents to Tesco and bring them to where Kellogs Cornflakes is to buy for £3 and a bottle of milk. Teach the parents how they would feel to be hungry whilst they are smoking their cigarettes, drinking alcohol, spending money doing hair and nails. It's called empathy and putting their kids needs before theirs. It's being a proper and loving parent.
Cost of living goes up. Wages stagnant. This is the result.
The ones that make these policies need to spend a day with the school a day and a day with the families to get the reality check
something like that we had in Poland almost 10 years ago what's happened on this country ?
No child should have to go hungry,the government should give all these poor children free school meals, like someone said we are not in Victorian age's
What a wonderful Head Teacher.
In Sweden they have free school meals and it started in about 1937 and no school uniforms.
As an ex debt worker I bet lots of parents are paying non priority debts over food and heating. Seen it before.
What kind are these for example? I would consider housing priority and depending upon location, transportation vehicle or bussing. Utilities? Clothing. Do you mean previous purchases made on credit or loans and mortgages taken out? What would happen if they don't pay those non-primary debts? would they have punitive measures taken, like garnishment?
@D C anymore, you need a mobile phone to function in society, especially given how uncommon landlines are.
@D C Oi. That's so irresponsible it's kind of impressive. Yeah, there is a big difference between having a mobile for practical purposes, and that kind of wasteful spending. They sound like the sort who never pay loans back.
@D C At Last someone can see what really is going on.
@D CI have seen it myself its a disgrace, my previous employment was to find employment for people the amount of people turned down work because they could get more on benefits and asked us to sign there Jobseeker's book to say we had nothing available.
My old primary school.❤ TowerHamleta provide free school meals for children...it should be for ALL children.
I grew up in London in the 1950s, time was tough but always food clothing and a home.
No heating except the front room.
My dad brought up in the depression said he stole a boys lunch once as he was hungry.
Can you blame any one who simply wants to survive.
I'm speechless that in the 21st century this is happening.
Meanwhile the rich get richer, the Tories do what ever there stinking rich backers want.
Do they know no shame????
It’s the family’s fault because they can find a way to feed there kid this is the land of opportunity and in America if a kid goes hungry it’s your fault
The same struggles are happening here in the US too. I think this is a global problem and governments are doing very little to rectify the problem.
What’s wrong with a cheese or ham sandwich and a pack of chips like when I was a kid.
How about taking extra work or maybe go to work and provide for your children
I wonder how many of those parents still smoke or still drinking, while saying I have no money for food..
Why do we look at it this way? That's social services job, our job as a society is to help if we can so all children get a warm free meal in school, and if we can't help we should stop blaming, and if worried about a child just call social services 😉
Dont forget the tattoos that cost £60 per hour lol New iphone thats costs £60 pound a month. What a bloody joke
@@Autistic365
I am ALL for helping Just the kids. In the form of Free School Meals and Snacks and help with education and grants vouchers (not in the form of money ) for school uniform and food vouchers ( that can only be spent on food only) not alcohol, not cigarette, not mum and dad treating themselves, Just food.
@@misslanapaulford yes I agree...same here..the problem unfortunately are some so called parents because they use those money for their habbits and addictions and those poor children end up with nothing
@@Autistic365 To what extent do we pay for other people's children with our own money?
One of my children's schools when they were younger would put a bin on each table and anyone that didn't want their fruit cup,yogurt,etc. Could put it in this biñ instead of throwing it out. If anyone was still hungry or didn't have a lunch, they could just help themselves.
It's a sad state of affairs when parents don't have the money to feed their own kids. But it's not parents..Its singular..Parent.. Those women can't feed their own kids. If I remember rightly there was a time when even the poorest of men provided for their wives and family. That was his job and his duty and respect within the family. No woman will respect a man that is not needed or a man that is justifiably prone to apathy because he can lose everything. Charity is soul-destroying but British family law is a stake through the heart of the core of society.
Poor people shouldn't have kids, but they have the most because they have too much time on their hands.
We didn't get so much as a free glass of water when l was at school. We just didn't have more kids than we could afford!
What money you parents had i bet they never spent it on hair extensions tattoos gell nails or Mc Donald's.
@@lynnedavies5884 NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!😁
@@galegrazutis964 Its a pity most of them didn't then they could feed their children.
@@lynnedavies5884 😉
Nonsense people had more children years ago
How many of these childrens parents smoke ,drink have up to date phones ,drink costas ,go to McDonald’s rather then cook themselves most of them ,I see it everyday where I live parents who do not work even though work places are calling out for staff. I feel sorry for the children but some of their parents are lazy and greedy
I agree. Parents on benefits are given a massive amount free that working people often do not get, even if they earn just over the threshold limit. They are given money to look after their kids, no one says it's easy but it's a matter of prioritising. Rent, food then bills. There are more job vacancies than unemployed people but the old " I would like to work, but I can't find a job " has become a mantre. Also where are all these absent so called parents, they should be forced to contribute. More likely than not it takes two to make a baby, and the British Taxpayers to keep it..
I will get called heartless but when my very violent ex husband and I broke up I worked two jobs to make sure my child was fed, clothes and cared for. To this day I remain poor. I went without because I had a duty to my child. Taxpayers money is not endless and to date although it has been searched for the international money tree🌲 fund has not been located, suggesting you sometimes need to be pro-active not spoonfed.
Fyi I do not include in any way in this comment: widows, sick people, disabled people or carers etc etc, just people who are fit, well, and capable, but damn good at the why I can't work etc.
In the fifties,sixties, I remember in Scotland there free meals were provided for those that could not afford it I was one of the 😅of those lucky kids when Denny’s shipyard closed down in 1963 we were given free
meals they were good healthy meals and all pupils were given milk 🥛 just before morning break if I remember correctly,it’s sad that in 2022 that children have to go hungry,
We never went to school hungry mum would be up at the crack of dawn she would make us porridge,or toast and eggs, or a bowl of corn flakes ,
If you can't feed em don't breed em 💯
This is so sad.
School dinners are ridiculously expensive £2.75 a day just for one meal ridiculous school is compulsory why should we have to pay that.
Apparently, going to a school isn’t compulsory. Parents can home school and, as long as they teach the basics and train their child(ren) a trade, they can go along like that. They don’t even have to follow the national curriculum.
Are you saying if your child wasn’t at school you wouldn’t feed him/her at lunchtime?
These tories will be making us pay for food and lodgings when we go into hospital next.
@@jenih1684 its wouldn't be £2.75 a day.
In the UK aswell 😢😢😢
Absolutely mad. The only reason why this is allowed is because of out of touch politicians.
If you want to see real poverty ,go to the Thirld World ( where I come from).
Here many people are only accustom to ask from the State or do not know how to manage their money.
But there is a whole industry build around this people .