This is appalling in this day and age in the U.K.
How can this be ?
That is terrible. I would never have believed that was happening in Britain in this century.
Heartbreaking . Yet where I live there is a web site called Nextdoor and free furniture is offered clothing and free food from an app called Olio or something and it surprises me there are no takers for this free stuff , it’s of good quality and includes good beds and bedding yet its advertised for days until I guess taken to the tip . It makes me think how can this be reading children in this situation
In my area we have a charity which will help in such lacking of furniture etc … the Vineyard Church Storehouse and very good they are too.
At the risk of being buried under an avalanche of protestations this is the Guardian we are using for reference here. Personally I’d take this report with a very large pinch of salt
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I saw this on TV last week and, I am sorry, but I can see no reason whatsoever why parents cannot provide their children with beds. If they can afford TVs, mobile phones, Ipads etc then they can afford beds! What are they spending their child benefit money on?
When I was growing up there were some huge families in our road, 8, 10 and 12 children in some households and they might have had to share but they all had beds. There were 8 kids living next door to us, 3 girls and 5 boys and their Dad worked but was on very low wages and there were no benefits then.
This is just my opinion but the more they give some people the more they hold their hands out. Free school meals, free meals when they’re not even at school, now beds!
If you cannot afford to feed and clothe and provide a bed for your kids then you shouldn’t be having them.
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I know but there are always people who are inadequate and others can’t cope for one reason or another . Their children are innocent and the teacher who went to their houses said they had nothing much less TVs and iPads .
Bed bugs seem like something from history.
I thought that the location was quite telling and wondered -perhaps wrongly what was the ethnic identity of these families .
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Have done a bit more reading on this and I was right in thinking this.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/compendium/economicreview/february2020/childpovertyandeducationoutcomesbyethnicity
We have a similar charity a few miles away from where we live. In fact, we’ve donated a load of reasonable quality stuff to them and have another 2 or 3 bags full waiting for our next trip.