Council to provide meals all year round for children from low-income families

[Pop]

have we established where the money is coming from yet?

Buckfast tax.

 

[I'm Spartacus]

have we established where the money is coming from yet?

The extra 8 quid they've put on a bottle of white lightning.

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Well I’m getting much less than £13k on the benefits calculator. About £4k less.

What’s up with that? Is that just hidden deductions and what they actually get is £9k?

Rent and council tax as I said in my previous post.

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

What about Yorkshire Pudding Pizzas?

I’ll be honest here they were f***ing shit

 

[Doberman]

I've paid for breakfast out of my own pocket numerous times since Christmas alone for pupils in my class. I've seen this sort of thing firsthand.

 

[Frijj]

Rent and council tax as I said in my previous post.

But rent is housing benefit and housing benefit was included in the benefit calculator

CT was £500 discounted or so

 

[nyron4england]

But rent is housing benefit and housing benefit was included in the benefit calculator

CT was £500 discounted or so

aren't housing benefit and council tax benefit linked? like, if you get one you get the other?

 

[Keawyeds]

I’ll be honest here they were f***ing shit

That is a disappointment, but not particularly surprising.
What do you expect for £3?

 

[Frijj]

aren't housing benefit and council tax benefit linked? like, if you get one you get the other?

I dunno, maybe I’ve put the wrong values in

What I think @Sir Lancelot is saying is that someone on benefits should get enough to pay for food

I agree with her tbf I’m just curious as to what is counted and isn’t

 

[Sir Lancelot]

But rent is housing benefit and housing benefit was included in the benefit calculator

CT was £500 discounted or so

Do it yourself.

Benefits Calculator - entitledto - independent | accurate | reliable

 

[Frijj]

Do it yourself.

Benefits Calculator - entitledto - independent | accurate | reliable

Can’t you do it for me?

 

[Pop]

I've paid for breakfast out of my own pocket numerous times since Christmas alone for pupils in my class. I've seen this sort of thing firsthand.

Why aren't the parents feeding them?

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

That is a disappointment, but not particularly surprising.
What do you expect for £3?

A meal deal

 

[Frijj]

A meal deal

£3.39 now

Thieving bastards

 

[Keawyeds]

A meal deal

Touché

 

[nyron4england]

not sure why everyone else has to pay for bad parenting decisions. if kids aren't getting fed properly then take the kids off the parent/s for neglect.

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

not sure why everyone else has to pay for bad parenting decisions. if kids aren't getting fed properly then take the kids off the parent/s for neglect.

Then put them up for adoption and pay for that?

£3.39 now

Thieving bastards

Must be a posh one

 

[nyron4england]

Then put them up for adoption and pay for that?

take the cost out of the parents benefits

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

Would you have learned more if you were there more?
The holiday isn't just for the kids, mind



That's very good of you.

anar

 

[Harry Angstrom]

Is this really where we’re at as a society? We have families who are so poor the council has to feed children every day of the year?

Shocking we’ve allowed ourselves to get into this state.

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A Scottish council is planning to provide school meals 365 days a year to children from low income families.

North Lanarkshire Council said its proposal would help tackle "holiday hunger".

The "Food 365" programme would cover the 175 days of the year when lunches are not served in school.

If approved, the council will run a pilot project in the spring break and could then extend the scheme over the summer holidays.

Council may feed children 365 days a year

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Ironically, they will be clinically obese at the same time.