2018?

[maggiebee]

School opens its own foodbank over Universal Credit hunger fears
"We don't want hungry children", said the school's principle.

A school in Middlesbrough has revealed that is launching its own "pop-up foodbank", over fears that the introduction of Universal Credit in the region will leave children hungry as parents are made to wait several weeks for an initial payment.

Craig Wright, assistant principal of the Outwood Academy, told TeesideLive: “We will be launching a pop-up foodbank to coincide with the roll-out of Universal Credit.

“We know that Universal Credit will affect our families in our community and the six-week wait especially will mean lots of our families will suffer in that time with a lack of resources.

“We’re launching a pop-up foodbank which will help to meet their needs in whatever way we can.”

This is what you get with a Tory government - couldn't give a monkeys about ordinary people. Come on DUP, get out of this unhealthy alliance.

[fiction-factory]

Are there really that many parents who bring children into the world that they can't afford to feed for a few weeks in the absence of benefits? There obviously issues but having seen the junk many of these children bring into school I take some of these stories with a pinch of salt

[maggiebee]

Well, there speaks someone who has probably never had to depend on benefits. Don't you realise most people on benefits live hand to mouth and certainly don't have enough money to last for 6 weeks.

[Mamyalynne]

Link to this particular story.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/we-dont-want-hungry-children-15271612


It's good they are pooling resources to tide people stuck over the hard times.

[maggiebee]

Thank you for posting the link Mamya, I couldn't get it to work.

[ummmm]

FF - I think you know there are.

[anneasquith]

Let's just open a food bank for a laugh . !!!!!

[Jackdaw33]

This is a national scandal of horrific proportions. The poor waifs and strays of noble Middlesbrough languish away to nothing whilst the fat Tory capitalists, led by that most evil of witches, May, feast on what little remains on their shrunken skeletons. People, rise up. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

[nailit]

//Are there really that many parents who bring children into the world that they can't afford to feed for a few weeks in the absence of benefits?//

How would you suggest that you feed kids when parents are left with no money fo 4-5 weeks at a time?
And before you say it, Im not talking about the 'proffessional' scroungers, Im talking about those that have lost there jobs and have to wait for weeks before receiving any help, or those on zero hours contracts who find themselves without work or those who do agency work and find themselves weeks or months without any work?

To answer your question ff, yes, there are!

[Baldric]

Just an excuse to have another pop at the Tories imo.

[Old_Geezer]

To play devil's advocate; I suspect FF means if one could not afford kids they ought not have had them, and if they could afford them and ran into issues they ought not be taking up zero hours contracts nor agency work but find full time employment. Delays getting welfare payments would be an issue but then before losing their job sufficient savings ought to have been accumulated for short periods of "rainy days". If this hadn't proven possible then the issue was there long before there was a downturn in fortune.

[nailit]

//Just an excuse to have another pop at the Tories imo. //
Maybe, maybe not (I try to be Atypical when it comes to politics)

//I suspect FF means if one could not afford kids they ought not have had them, and if they could afford them and ran into issues they ought not be taking up zero hours contracts nor agency work but find full time employment//
So someone with a family to feed ought not to take employment where he can find it?? And thus been called a scrounger!
Cant win sometimes.

[AuntLydia]

This report comes out at the same time that Middlesborough is named the worst area in the UK for child obesity. Someone has enough money for the pies . Does not make sense.

[ichkeria]

Don’t expect the DUP to help for god’s sake. Maybe offer up a wee prayer ... ;-)

[andres]

I don't understand the system but what happens to child benefit ? Does that still get paid whilst they are waiting the six weeks for Universal Credit?

[ummmm]

Hardly enough to live on, Andres.

[Mamyalynne]

Child Benefit is not affected and continues.

[AuntLydia]

i'm watching a programme on universal credit and everyone at the food bank is obese. Maybe they should take advantage of their predicament and eat less anyway?

[Ellipsis]

> [Mrs Angela Sweeten, principal] said that 65% of children at the academy are on free school meals and the roll-out of Universal Credit could hit families of children at the school.

65%! Wow. Hard to know what to say about that ...

But, given that 65%, presumably the food bank idea is based on this kind of thinking:

https://fullfact.org/education/free-school-meals-and-universal-credit/

[AuntLydia]

I've also been watching a programme about starving children in Syria. People in the UK don't know the meaning of the word starving. They should get a job and stop moaning. If they have jobs they should not be getting benefits. Until Working Tax Credit stops, wages will never go up! Why pay your employee more money when the State steps in to top up their wages? Madness!

[nailit]

//This report comes out at the same time that Middlesborough is named the worst area in the UK for child obesity. Someone has enough money for the pies //

For Gods sakes, when will some retarded people get the idea that foodbanks arnt to feed pies to overweight kids but to help people that are struggeling to survive???
I give up!