Bleak houses: homeless children are being housed in shipping containers
Children in the UK are being housed in shipping containers because so many of them are homeless, according to the …
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More than HALF A MILLION CHILDREN have been harmed by cruel Tory benefit cap
The Conservatives will be celebrating today after it was revealed that they have harmed nearly 600,000 children with their …
Tory cuts to childrens’ social services mean they face a lifetime of disadvantage
If you heard that children who have to see a social worker end up two grades behind at GCSE and …
Working parents are starving for a week at a time because they aren’t paid enough to feed their children
It breaks This Writer’s heart to learn about the suffering of parents in my home town of Bristol, although I’m …
The Tories are delaying Universal Credit rollout – but they won’t stop its burning injustices
Yes, I used the words “burning injustices” in my headline to remind you that Theresa May said she would end …
‘Compassionate’ Conservatism has led to this: Council must slash £750,000 children’s service bill
This is the result of Tory cuts. Underfunded councils prove unable to attract qualified full-time social workers but have a …
Why are the Tories forcing children to grow up in squalor?
We should be grateful to Peter Stefanovic for raising this issue; the BBC wasn’t about to do so, when he …
More than a million more children are in poverty since 2010 and the BBC won’t report it
The number of children growing up in poverty in working households is set to be one million (50 per cent) …
Food bank use has rocketed because it is impossible to survive on the Tory benefit system
What is the point of the UK’s financial deficit reaching its lowest level since 2007, if the country’s citizens are …
If Theresa May won’t resign over #WindrushGeneration, there should be a vote of ‘no confidence’ in her government
I just posted on Twitter: “We should tweet every Conservative MP and council candidate, and say: “Treatment of the Windrush …