"Children in 2015 should not be hungry and coming to school with no socks on and no coats - some children are living in Victorian conditions - in the inner cities," said one unnamed teacher.

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Nick?

To be fair a teacher at my Mum's school sorted new clothes for a kid, who then came in the next day with the same old ones. The father was a scumbag by all accounts and had likely sold them, and not to put food on the table. (Pre-coalition BTW)

Edited by johnfirewall (05 Apr 2015 2.23pm)

Sorry but that's not to do with poverty, that's s***ty parenting.

Times are tough for some people, no doubt and whilst you can argue the pros and cons of the current benefit system there's enough to stop this from happening.

I will qualify the "s***ty" bit. Poor would have been better. The reality is that too many families (both poor and wealthy) don't have the skills to raise a family if it doesn't involve spending money. So when the money stops, people cannot/will not adapt.

Cooking skills, haberdashery etc have almost vanished in a single generation. By today's measure, I grew up in poverty for a large part of my childhood. having meat with a meal would besides a Sunday chicken usually be offal or pigs trotters until I was 12 and got a job on a farm.

Instead of throwing money at the problem improve life skills.
Also bearing in mind the survey was for a teaching Union, the result is Hadley surprising.

This is clearly neglect, and any teacher not reporting it immediately is complicit to that neglect.

Well not meeting a child's basic needs is neglect - and a responsible adult, who is passive and does nothing, is complicit in my view. I can't believe you don't agree.

Or clothes for their children,or fags for themselves.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.