Now this is mind blowing if factual !!!!!

Children are so hungry in one British town they are eating from bins

07 Feb 2019
Alex Thornton
Senior Writer , Formative Content

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/children-are-so-hungry-in-one-british-town-they-are-eating-from-bins


Desperate times, desperate measures. Image: REUTERS/Simon Dawson

“Please, Sir, I want some more.”

The words of Charles Dickens’ character, the orphan, Oliver Twist begging for more gruel immortalized the grinding poverty so common during Britain’s Industrial Revolution.

Now, 180 years later, it is a shock to find children still going hungry in one of the richest countries in the world.

But that is the situation being reported by teachers in communities across the UK – children arriving at school so hungry that they are filling their pockets with food, or even scouring bins for scraps.

Food insecurity among children


Siobhan Collingwood, a headteacher at a primary school in Morecambe in Lancashire, told the BBC that she has seen pupils arriving with nothing in their lunchboxes, and parents bursting into tears because they have no means of feeding their children.

Unfortunately, her story is not unique. Other teachers have reported children who are thin, with “grey skin, poor teeth, poor hair”, tired by 9.30am because they haven’t eaten.

The UK is the world’s fifth-biggest economy, with a GDP per capita four times the global average. Yet, UNICEF figures show 19% of children under 15 in the UK live with adults who struggle to buy food – among the worst rates in Europe, but on par with the United States.

That has prompted a parliamentary committee to call for a “Minister for Hunger”, to deal with growing food insecurity.

Although the UK government provides all children with free school meals for the first three years of their education (up to the age of seven), Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to abandon plans to scrap those free meals after the 2017 election. Free school meals are provided to all children of any age whose parent or carer qualifies for income-related benefits.

And in fact, the figures suggest the number of children eligible for free school meals has actually fallen, as the number of benefit claimants has decreased.

In work but in poverty

Changes to benefits since the election of the Conservative-led government in 2010 have proved controversial. The government itself argues that work is the best route out of poverty, and that the welfare system should be designed to encourage people into work. And indeed it can point to record numbers of people in employment.

But ministers have admitted there are significant issues with the roll-out of the flagship Universal Credit welfare reform, with reports of delays in payments, and many families receiving less than previously. The often highly charged debate even prompted Ken Loach’s award-winning film I, Daniel Blake.

The charity Child Poverty Action Group claims that 30% of children in the UK live in poverty – that’s 4.1 million children. Particularly surprising is their finding that 67% of children in poverty live in a household where someone works.

That is evidence of a growing trend: people who have jobs, but who still struggle to afford the basics.

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I find this hard to believe.
Well, I’m off to the BBC website to confirm.

okwabayi:
I find this hard to believe.
Well, I’m off to the BBC website to confirm.

sorry, i forgot to post the bbc link

Hungry children 'eating from school bins' in Morecambe

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-46827360

AfroBlue:


sorry, i forgot to post the bbc link

Hungry children 'eating from school bins' in Morecambe

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-46827360

Thanks for the link.
I still find it hard to believe.
The reason is listed, though: unemployed parents.
If it’s not disability I see no reason why an adult can not find work to do especially menial labour.
Why do poor people have children to begin with?
Thanks again for posting the article.

just like in america, britain has a very serious drug problem with a large segment of it's population.
afghanistan is producing record crops of opium and china is flooding the west with the powerful fentanyl drug.

here's one example from yankee

Facebook video captures unconscious couple on sidewalk in Memphis


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4bJqokG2Xc

What town is that?

And you see some folks criticising the Federal government School Feeding Programme.

There are challenges everywhere. Let work on fixing ours.