Homeless Children Record Numbers Shame

[Theland]

Clegg, Cameron and May should hang their heads in shame for allowing on their watch so much poverty and homelessness particularly affecting children.
It is correctly described as a national scandal.
Under the Tories, being poor is a crime and punished with even more poverty.
Unless Boris is made of different stuff, how can he expect support from anybody with a social conscience?

[naomi24]

What are you talking about?

[Theland]

Report from Shelter on the BBC 1 news.

[naomi24]

Have you got a link?

[hc4361]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1684145.html

I think there are record numbers because the policy is now tempered towards keeping families together rather than putting children in care. Even a few years ago a homeless family would have had their children removed from them.

[hc4361]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50631620

[Theland]

No just watching the TV.

[naomi24]

Not to worry, Theland. I've found it.

//Wales is the only UK nation to see increase in child poverty//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50606413

Wales is under a Labour administration I believe.

Next!

[Theland]

Don't be selective. Look at the figures for the North West. Highest in the country outside of London.

[gulliver1]

Theland , what the hell would Boris or the Con Party Know about Poverty. they think poverty is a clue in a crossword puzzle.

[hc4361]

From last December:
Government figures reveal a total of 123,630 minors were housed in temporary accommodation in England between April and June, marking a 70 per cent increase on 2010 and a rise of nearly a quarter in the past three years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-children-england-poverty-austerity-housing-crisis-figures-a8681281.html

And the situation has worsened since then

[naomi24]

I'm not being selective. You're saying the Tories should be ashamed and yet the only area to see an INCREASE in child poverty is Labour controlled. You cant have it both ways, Theland.

[Theland]

Shameful. I voted Labour all my life, but this time, Corbyn the friend of terrorists and weak on anti Semitism scares me off. If not for him they would keep my vote.
Brexit is important to me, leave, but at what cost to the less fortunate if yet more arrogant Toryism.

[Theland]

You are indeed being selective.
Are all the homeless kids in Wales?

[naomi24]

Wonky thinking. You would vote Labour. Labour intend hitting business and oil companies with high taxes. The result of that will be that the increase is passed on to the consumer meaning potential job losses and higher prices for everything. The people least likely to be able to afford that are the poor. Where's the sense in voting Labour?

[dannyk13]

Theland, how can Naomi be selective when there is only one area showing an increase?

[hc4361]

This thread is about child homelessness and there is a huge increase in England and the UK as a whole. National and regional statistics from 12 months ago here:
https://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/1626466/The_housing_crisis_generation_-_Homeless_children_in_Britain.pdf

[naomi24]

//Are all the homeless kids in Wales? //

No they're not - but Wales is the only area that's seen an increase - and that is Labour controlled. Heaven forbid that the unsavoury facts should break through the red mist.

[Theland]

Naomi - You are contradicting the info in the link kindly provided by hc4 - the Shelter report.

[teacake44]

I watched a program on tv late last night, on child poverty. I must say it was heart breaking. But the one family their were looking at, both parents had metal health problems, that had a lot to do with their poverty, as they couldn't work.

[gulliver1]

Theland ,08.49 I am afraid Naomi keeps forgetting that the Cons have been in power for the Last ten years. Boris did the same he forgot his party had been in power for ten years when he Blamed the London Bridge disaster on Labour , It appears these pair can be selective