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Period Poverty
Every school and college can now get free period products
Movements for women's sanitary.
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Movements for women's sanitary.
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"Is this out of the educational budget?" No, the supplies are provided free.
Naomi, but how can the genuinely needy and the freeloaders be identified when it comes to schoolchildren. I just think, to start with at least, they'll have to look after the genuine and take a hit. As the project continues, perhaps with monitoring and identifying problem areas, a more direct approach can be taken.
Naomi, but how can the genuinely needy and the freeloaders be identified when it comes to schoolchildren. I just think, to start with at least, they'll have to look after the genuine and take a hit. As the project continues, perhaps with monitoring and identifying problem areas, a more direct approach can be taken.
O_G an Optical Voucher for a child often leds to a free pair of glasses depending where you shop.
As a child mine were always the bog standard NHS type, which actually came fashionable many years later.
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As a child mine were always the bog standard NHS type, which actually came fashionable many years later.
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Personally I couldn't give a tinker's cuss whether it's brought in or not, but I absolutely refuse to believe that any parent with even a modicum of parental conscientiousness, would allow their child to go without, and therefore those that say they cannot afford it are just simply bad parents whose primary thoughts are about themselves rather than the wellbeing of their child.
//"Is this out of the educational budget?" No, the supplies are provided free.//
Really? Which benevolent manufacturer of these goods is dishing them out free of charge? Of course they are not “free”. They may be free of charge to those who use them, but they are not free.
//The way some people are quibbling about it, you’d swear they’d been asked to pay for the scheme.//
They are being asked to pay for it (well those of us that pay tax are). As above, they are not free. Whatever budget the cash comes from ultimately it comes from the taxpayer.
//As a start they should be tax free.//
That is a different argument to providing them free of charge but they are not free of VAT because the EU tax laws do not allow it.
Frankly this scheme is preposterous. Parents receive child benefit to help support their children but even without that, the responsibility is that of parents to provide their children with necessities. To suggest that they cannot afford to provide these items when, as explained, they are quite inexpensive, when those same parents roam around with expensive phones clamped in their hands, with tattoos and piercings aplenty and when they pay other people to make them a cup of coffee is frankly insulting to the intelligence.
Really? Which benevolent manufacturer of these goods is dishing them out free of charge? Of course they are not “free”. They may be free of charge to those who use them, but they are not free.
//The way some people are quibbling about it, you’d swear they’d been asked to pay for the scheme.//
They are being asked to pay for it (well those of us that pay tax are). As above, they are not free. Whatever budget the cash comes from ultimately it comes from the taxpayer.
//As a start they should be tax free.//
That is a different argument to providing them free of charge but they are not free of VAT because the EU tax laws do not allow it.
Frankly this scheme is preposterous. Parents receive child benefit to help support their children but even without that, the responsibility is that of parents to provide their children with necessities. To suggest that they cannot afford to provide these items when, as explained, they are quite inexpensive, when those same parents roam around with expensive phones clamped in their hands, with tattoos and piercings aplenty and when they pay other people to make them a cup of coffee is frankly insulting to the intelligence.
//NJ, they're free insomuch as the funding does not come out of the school's education budget.//
From the BBC report:
//The government is giving each school a set amount of money to spend on products in 2020//
So how does that make them "free" then? The government has no money. All it spends either comes from the taxpayer or is borrowed with the loan being serviced by the taxpayer.
From the BBC report:
//The government is giving each school a set amount of money to spend on products in 2020//
So how does that make them "free" then? The government has no money. All it spends either comes from the taxpayer or is borrowed with the loan being serviced by the taxpayer.
