and it also doesn't mean that kids are going hungry because their parents don't have enough money. Many other issues.
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
yeah some parents for example have alcohol and drug dependencies which sadly take priority. Breakfast in school helps that problem.
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Replying to @markmacnicol
No, breakfast in schools masks that problem. Kids shouldn't be left in homes where parents aren't doing the basic job of parenting.
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
kids taken into care if their parents are struggling? you really are all heart aren’t you.
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Replying to @markmacnicol
Children are badly damaged by drug/drink addict parents. Leaving them with addicts & feeding them at school isn't the solution. Better to...
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
tory austerity cuts on social services budgets won’t help either. while we debate kids go hungry.
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Replying to @markmacnicol
I don't agree with those cuts and have said so publicly many times. But that doesn't stop parents feeding their kids.
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
You prob don’t know much about the DWP sanction culture. A miracle some parents manage to feed their kids when benefits stopped.
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Replying to @markmacnicol
No, I've only spent years researching, writing and broadcasting about it, interviewing experts, talking to people who work in benefits ...
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
so if you’re an expert on sanctions/DWP you should know that some people can’t feed their kids because of them.
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I don't claim to be an expert but I know about this than you assume. Some people are in that situation but very very few. Again, still...
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... not a reason to spend a fortune providing free school breakfasts for vast majority of kids who don't need them.
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