 |
|
 |
| |
TEACHERS POLL SHOWS MORE SCHOOL CHILDREN HUNGRY AND COLD AT CHRISTMAS
|
|
Star date: 11th December 2019 TEACHERS UNION STATES NEXT GOVERNMENT MUST PRIORITISE CHILD POVERTY A new poll by the National Education Union shows that a majority of teachers are worried that more children in their school will be hungry and cold this Christmas, and the vast majority says that the next Government must prioritise ending child poverty. "In the fifth richest country in the world, we should not still be hearing the same harrowing stories from teachers worried about whether their students will have access to a hot dinner during their two-week break" says Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU. Full details here...
|
|
A new poll commissioned by the National Education Union (NEU) shows that the majority of teachers are worried that yet more children in their school will be hungry and cold this Christmas.
The poll of 549 National Education Union members, conducted by Deltapoll, revealed that 63% of respondents were worried that more children than last year will be going hungry over the Christmas period; and 59% felt that more children this year compared with last Christmas will be going without warm clothing. Meanwhile, more than one in 10 teachers said their schools will be taking steps to support families over the Christmas holidays, and 90% of teachers said that the next Government must prioritise ending child poverty. Child poverty currently officially stands at 21% in Salford, although in some wards child poverty levels are way higher than this. In Langworthy, child poverty stands at almost 43% after housing costs, in Irwell Riverside the figure jumps to almost 47%, in Little Hulton it's 43% and in Broughton it's 42%. "At a time of year when children should be excitedly looking forward to the holidays, thousands are facing a bleak Christmas without enough food or warm clothing" says Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU. "Teachers see the impact poverty has on our children and young people on a daily basis" she adds "It is no surprise that the majority of members believe the next Government must end child poverty when they witness its impact on pupils day in day out. In the fifth richest country in the world, we should not still be hearing the same harrowing stories from teachers worried about whether their students will have access to a hot dinner during their two-week break..."
For more background see also previous Salford Star article: New Statistics Reveal Tory Government Horrors in Salford and North West - click here
|
|
|
|
jon wrote
at 08:20:30 on 19 December 2019 |
|
|
| Wrote, wow, just wow. Insulting a person who is dying. How low can you get? Disgusting, just disgusting. Showing your true colours and resorting to insults. I am neither "sanctimonious" not a "do gooder". Nor do I want or am I likely to receive an OBE. I have simply responded to being called "smug" "middle class" "charity wage earner" etc. and now "sanctimonious". I have never made personal comments or attempted to cause offence. I just pointed out that people did not support a Corbyn led Labour Party and their promises. I give practical help, not ideological promises that can not be fulfilled. You insult me for volunteering to help those in need. Their need is immediate. Who gave you the right to tell me to "stop going on"? Is it your publication or website? SS can you please stop printing comments which are personally insulting? It devalues your publication and stops contributions from people that really do care for the communities we live in. |
|
|
?
|
wrote
at 08:45:24 on 18 December 2019 |
|
|
| ok jon stop going on you sanctimonious do gooder obe on the way sevices to charatee . |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 12:32:56 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
| Rossi, I appreciate your apology, and accept it with the grace it was no doubt offered. I would however ask that you reflect on your contributions to these comments sections. They are often inappropriate, personally insulting and not relevant to the story. I would also aim that to all those others that do likewise, they devalue this publication. |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 12:32:36 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
| Wrote, I am not poor, but I have been. You make the assumption that I am middle class and have never used charity. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we were children, we lived on the Ordsall estate, back in the 60's and 70's. We had nothing, and I remember having to ask neighbours for a shilling piece to put into the meter because we had no money for electric. I also remember having to borrow a bucket of coal for the fire to keep one room warm. I also remember the kindness of charities that helped to clothe and feed us. I was lucky enough to find good employment, not least because those charities enabled me to go to school with food in my belly and clothes on my back. Unfortunately I am now unable to work because of a life limiting disability. I wish to repay the kindness as those that showed kindness to me and our family. You state that the charities perpetuate the situation, and let the government off the hook, and say that the government funds the charities. What is the alternative for those in dire need right now? Wait 5 years until a more compassionate government is in power? Walk past and do nothing whilst watching those in need go hungry or cold? I prefer to do what I can on a personal basis (though for how long I will be physically able is in doubt) and at the same time advocate for change. Your final sentence does not in fact make any sense. If you give out bread to those in hunger and need (whilst calling for governmental policy change) they call you compassionate not a saint as you suggest. If you have no bread to give, then you are the one in need, they do not make pronouncements of your political allegiances. You may wish to walk by and do nothing because your principles tell you it is the governments responsibility, I will not. |
|
|
?
|
DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 12:31:58 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
| Rossi @ I speak to hundreds of people every week, I'm a people person, I talk to the citizens about all sorts about CHILD POVERTY, familys, about BILLS, WORK, the council, football, even the weather, etc. Merry Xmas. |
|
|
?
|
DARREN IN CITY OF SALFORD. wrote
at 08:40:06 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
| No name calling please, stick to above subject about CHILD POVERTY in Salford. There is quite a few kids in the poorer areas of Salford not gonna get NOWT for Xmas, NO PRESENTS, not even a lovely Xmas dinner on Xmas day. We have got to make sure these kids get SOMETHING on that SPECIAL Xmas day. The day when Jesus was allegedly born and one of his sayings was "let him who is without sin cast the first stone". My mother brought up four kids and she had to scrimp and save, she worked really hard, sometimes she had to "rob Peter to pay Paul", that's what you got to do. 99% of parents do provide for there kids, but that 1% don't, there buy weed/ drink first. I WORK to provide for my kids, I don't smoke/ drink and I put a bet on football about 5 times a year. I'm just a ordinary bloke in Salford.
Merry xmas. |
|
|
?
|
wrote
at 07:18:28 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
| poor jon you are a supporter of food banks so what happens when no food is available to give out i have been turned away without food as you say you are fortunate not to need to go to a food bank so you dont know what it is like to be on the recieveing end well i can tell you from personal experience that many do go cold and do go hungry and many of these so called middle class charities get a lot of government funding which gets the state off the hook from providing a safety net and providing peoples basic needs charity is a way of easing the guilt of the rich and does more harm than good this does not detract from the human instinct to help people in need however you can keep charity .if you give out bread they call you a saint /if you have no bread to give out and ask why there is no bread to give they call you a communist. i am a communist |
|
|
?
|
ROSSI wrote
at 07:15:10 on 16 December 2019 |
|
|
|
|
?
|
ROSSI 😁 wrote
at 21:52:32 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| I appreciate your honesty Darren, but you've just admitted what a disgusting parasite you really are. We know that you're a debt collector, as you've bragged about it several times, and in your statement that "In my job, I speak to a lot of single mothers in Salford areas ..." You have just told us which group forms a sizeable percentage of your debtors. What a disgraceful and disgusting parasite you are. Anyway, Happy Christmas everyone ... Even you Darren, you miserable wretch. |
|
|
?
|
Bob the regular wrote
at 21:52:21 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| Poverty. I have seen lots of it when I was a kid. It's not so much the seeing of it,it's the smell of it. It makes my guts wretch when I smell it.Although money or lack of it has something to do with it in part, poverty is not solely connected with this condition. I have seen people with very low income manage quite well, and know of cases where people of great wealth have lived in squalor. A perfect example being two members of the Rausing family who lived in a druggy cesspit worth millions in the poshest part of london. Another cause is greedy landlords who want a top up from housing benefit. No matter what we do ,there will always be poverty, sad but true. I just hate it. |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 21:52:11 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| Paul Kelly, I never said I was a wage earning charity worker. I stated that I help out at a charity and I assumed you would realise that I give my time freely. You insult my attempts of trying to help those who are less fortunate than me. Should I not try to help people that are hungry or destitute? I don't really care what you think of me, I do what I think is right. And what the F*** are you on about, "you may have your own workhouse to administer"? What a ridiculous statement. I have had to finish work early due to disability, however I am lucky enough to have earned a relatively high salary that provides a good pension (though nowhere near as much as Jeremy Corbyn and his associates). I am not going to apologise for that. However I now use my free time to help those who have not been able to do the same as me, though my physical ability is somewhat limited. I wish people didn't have to rely on charity, but I live in the real world where some people do sometimes need support. I do not expect anyone to "tug" their forelock or "praise" my benevolence. Neither did I say that Boris would do anything to relieve the plight of the poor of society, nor did I suggest that the outcome of the election would result in a new utopia or anything else that you have written in your nasty diatribe. I correctly stated that Labour are not in a position to implement their far reaching policies because the electorate didn't believe they were deliverable. You have made the assumption of the way I voted, incorrectly as it happens. I voted Labour (not a popular party with this publication I might add) as I do believe in a fairer society. I probably have a more pragmatic view of how we achieve that aim, we can achieve nothing from a position of the opposition. We will never improve the situation if we become unelectable as a Party in the minds of the majority. However you have chosen the tactic of making assumptions, insulting, deriding and name calling. With that sort of charm offensive you might struggle to convince people to join you with the cause. How are you ever going to encourage people to the party if your first reaction to anyone is that of disrespect, derision and vilification? If Momentum, you and your ilk, are still driving Labour in 5 years, then we are in for far more than 5 years in opposition. By the way, I am not your "comrade" |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 21:52:00 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| Rossi, my comments were neither crass nor out of touch. You once again go on a ridiculous accusatory rant which is full of inaccuracies and personal slurs. You ramble on with irrelevant stories as usual, all in a vain attempt to make yourself sound funny and laudable. I said that no one needs to go without food or warm clothes and that is true. I also said that I was not suggesting that this was a satisfactory situation and that no one should have to rely on these charities. I live in the real world and know that under the current government, they will not help people out so alternatives have to be provided by volunteers such as myself. Nowhere did I suggest that I was happy with the need for charities, but I truthfully stated that no child should go hungry or cold.
Don't tell me to "get some compassion". I am disabled and can no longer work. I am fortunate enough to have been able to make financial provision for myself. Whilst I have limited physical ability, I assist with a charity to help others who have not been as fortunate as me. My disability is life limiting and my abilities will reduce as time goes on. I will likely die before I reach old age pension age. I can not just stand by and watch people in need without doing everything I can to help them, my compassion is evident in my actions. So how about you getting "some compassion". And while you are at it, how about getting out and using some of that free time you have to help others less fortunate than you. After all, you don't work, and clearly think you are more compassionate than me. |
|
|
?
|
paul kelly wrote
at 14:01:00 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| jon you and all your hand ringing smug charity wage earning middle class brigade who ponce off the misery of this rotten system must be so pleased that more poor and desperate people will be looking upto you tugging there forelock and praising your benevolence i have noticed boris as not said anything about easing the plight of the poorest in this new utopia like increasing benefits /getting rid of food banks ditching universal discredit ending homeleesness etc which led to over 700 avoidable deaths last year .its looking good for foodbank growth and poverty jon with a bit of luck you may have your own workhouse to administer . as for the election labours manifesto pledges were all costed and affordable did you read it jon or did you accept the anti working class biased bbc/ right wing press vested intrests mobs version brexit was the deciding factor in the election. momentums statement is correct the policies put forward were right and should be implemented when labour win the next election within 5 years the day will come patience comrades. |
|
|
?
|
BORN AND BRED DARREN. wrote
at 14:00:53 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| In my job, I speak to a lot of single mothers in Salford areas and 99% of em would Rather treat there kids than treat themselves. Most of these mothers buy there clothes from tesco/ASDA for themselves and make sure there kids have the "branded names" like Adidas,nike etc. Some family's have to go to "loan sharks" for Xmas £££ and pay back the £££ over the next 9months. Some of these family's "rob Peter to pay Paul". Some parents do smoke weed and drink to get pissed rather than feed there own kids(small percentage). merry Xmas. |
|
|
?
|
ROSSI wrote
at 14:00:15 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| Do you not realise how crass and out of touch you sound with your 'food banks' comment, Jon?
I'm reminded of a scene from the remake of A Christmas Carol, where the Ghost of the Future, played by Edward Woodward, takes Ebenezer for a tour of London's slums, and old Ebenezer is shocked and starts spasmodically mumbling "Aren't there - Aren't there Work ... Aren't there Work ..." Before the Ghost of the Future cuts in scathingly with "Aren't there Work Houses!"
I believe that if the Ghost of the Future was going to take you on a magical mystery tour of the poorer parts of Salford this Christmas Eve, that in similarly scathing manner to Edward Woodward's Ghost, He'd be saying to you, "Are there no Food Banks! Are there no Charity Shops!!"
... You want to get some compassion, Jon, some empathy. We're all gonna die one day, so why don't you have a Scrooge like transformation while you still got time. |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 06:52:25 on 15 December 2019 |
|
|
| paul kelly, Labour won't be reinstating anything as the electorate didn't believe their promises of free everything. It has been stated by Momentum that the individual policies were popular, and that's as maybe. But rational people realised that while the policies of the Labour manifesto are great long term aims, they are not affordable in the short term. They should not have been election promises. |
|
|
?
|
paul kelly wrote
at 08:47:48 on 12 December 2019 |
|
|
| vote corbyns labour if you want to see an end to child poverty pensioner poverty people who work poverty and all the poverty these ruling class bastards have inflicted on
society by there deliberate evil impoverishment of the most vulnerable you can send charity and all its evils back to victorian times labour will reinstate a social security system decent wages and hence an end to this diabolical tory regimes dystopia. |
|
|
?
|
DJB wrote
at 08:47:11 on 12 December 2019 |
|
|
| Oh wait is there an election tomorrow and we need to try and feed an anti Conservative agenda?
Vote properly and we in Salford can get rid of Labour, vote right to better our own lives. No child should be hungry but let's be honest how many of the parents of these waifs are busy buying weed and booze rather than feed their children. |
|
|
?
|
jon wrote
at 17:07:28 on 11 December 2019 |
|
|
| Why will they be going hungry when there is food banks to provide food for them? Why be cold without warm clothes when there are charities to help? I am not suggesting that it is a satisfactory state of affairs, and no one should need a food bank or charity, but there is no need to go hungry or cold. I help out at a charity and we assist so many in dire straights, but will never leave a family to go without food, clothing, or toys for the children at Christmas. |
|
|
?
|
Kev wrote
at 15:10:08 on 11 December 2019 |
|
|
| How about targeting feckless parents who would rather spend their benefits on themselves rather than their (often numerous)kids? |
|
|
?
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
.jpg)
advertisement
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
Hi Paul I hope you are well, please can you tell me how much it would be to have the George Best Mosaic made? Indeed if you are st... [more] |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
I am Marjorie Goodwin's grandson. I still have that battered tobacco tin. I don't know what happened to the silver one!
... [more] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I parked here with a disability badge and my back tyre was slightly over line as I suffer with coordination and it says if I appea... [more] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 North Johnson Street, Salford.
My Great Grandfather was the son of Household James Rowlands 68. x2. His wife Frances Rowlands... [more] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
lived for many years as a kid in Murray st. Hilda who was mum to John would visit my grandmother and would tell us about what john... [more] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Days |
Hours |
Minutes |
Seconds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Help the Salford Star...
all donations welcome
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
.jpg)
.jpg)
(3).jpeg)
.png)
(1).JPG)
