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Good on you mrs_overall, continue the good work you are doing for the kids, I know it is sometimes hard work and sometimes inconvenient, plus the backlash you get from some parents of the kids you are "looking after".
But what the hell, when one sees those children's faces enjoying the various pursuits that one is supervising, then it is all well worth it.
What I cannot understand is, why these days does one have to personally pay for all the various government insisted documentation etc.
Never did we have to pay in the past, ID cards free of charge, Ration books free of charge, Gas masks free of charge, even air-raid shelters once again free of charge.
If we ever needed these items today, the only persons who would be entitled to get them free, yes those on "Benefits" and of course if one lived in Scotland.