“Should small children in poverty be fed?” asks the Guardian.https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1237355933518487553 …
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Lots of people clearly haven’t looked into this, but many families in poverty aren’t eligible for free school meals: if you earn over £7,400 on Universal Credit? Not eligible. So scrapping universal FSM *does* mean some poor kids go hungry, snotty QTers. It should be expanded.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
Feed every child in every school a breakfast and lunch or cut fuel duty for the 10th year running so the kids won’t have anything left to inherit? Its a tricky dilemma.
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Replying to @ibroxmassive
Incredible that so many men were snottily quotetweeting that I’d “clearly not read the article” when I have, know how many older kids in poverty get no meals, and Universal FSM and breakfast would be so cheap compared to so much in the budget.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
It’s fucking maddening. Also the ‘but some schools don’t have infrastructure’ argument, as if investment impossible. Have real concerns that as a response to Covid-19 there’ll be an extension of the Easter holiday for schools and the knock on effect that’ll have for kids on FSM.
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Yep, if kids who are already hungry are stuck at home without FSM, and with parents who’ve lost money having to take sick pay, it’ll be awful.
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