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Children Being Fed In The Summer Holidays
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I get all the "people should feed their own children" and "they get child benefit" points. However, I found it strange when I saw this yesterday. Marcus rashford was said to have raised £20m that would provide around 3m meals. That seems really expensive meals to me, seeing as this article says eligible families could get £15 pw which is about 1/2 the price per meal of the top figure. Why the disparity I wonder?
I get all the "people should feed their own children" and "they get child benefit" points. However, I found it strange when I saw this yesterday. Marcus rashford was said to have raised £20m that would provide around 3m meals. That seems really expensive meals to me, seeing as this article says eligible families could get £15 pw which is about 1/2 the price per meal of the top figure. Why the disparity I wonder?
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FF is assuming parents can or will cook. Homemade soup? many can't even make an omelette or fry an egg. Some on here say their parents never got benefits -well disregarding those AB'ers not brought up in the UK, Family allowance as it was called, was paid to every child, through the mother, and was replaced with Child Benefit. Every child got free milk in the morning and if you were very poor free school dinners.
It enrages me to see obviously morbidly obese mothers wailing on the news how are they going to cope trying to feed their kids! Well eat less yourself would be a good start! I know fresh healthy food costs more than crap food, but many parents haven't got the skills to use left-overs and eek out fresh ingredients -its easier to give the kids a maccy D. Children should not go hungry in this country and I think giving out vouchers to those eligible children is correct under these circumstances. Going forward more money should be put into adult education to teach people Domestic skills including budgeting and cooking.
It enrages me to see obviously morbidly obese mothers wailing on the news how are they going to cope trying to feed their kids! Well eat less yourself would be a good start! I know fresh healthy food costs more than crap food, but many parents haven't got the skills to use left-overs and eek out fresh ingredients -its easier to give the kids a maccy D. Children should not go hungry in this country and I think giving out vouchers to those eligible children is correct under these circumstances. Going forward more money should be put into adult education to teach people Domestic skills including budgeting and cooking.
Funny old World. Last week I was reading that there is an obesity crisis amongst our young as well as the adults(usually the parents of the obese kids) and that this has lessened our overall ability to combat the virus. Now, the new and exciting idea is to hand out free food to kids outside the usual school term time when they were fed by the school. Let's get this right then schools provide no education but they will feed already overfed kids? May as well close the schools for good considering their overall worth to the Country anyway, turn them all into giant mess hall for kids and retrain the teachers to cook and wait on. This would cause problems on "teacher training days" ( haha the very concept makes me giggle) so they could perhaps give em double the day before and a big top up the day after.
