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Yes it is.
Power to Mick Lynch
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Working exactly as intended.
IIRC in most of Europe if the likes of railway staff go "on strike" they can do it in a way that doesn't cripple the economy but does hurt the bottom line of the companies (although for a lot of the transport industry it can cost a significant portion of the normal running costs just to have the planes/trains sat idle).
2035, that's a frightening thought. Let alone what the next year or two delivers.
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I came across this thread on Reddit today; quite sobering. I genuinely found it a wee bit upsetting.
A warning about swearies in the Reddit comments as there's some pretty accurate comments regarding the Tories, and I don't know how to post only the video.
www.reddit.com
A warning about swearies in the Reddit comments as there's some pretty accurate comments regarding the Tories, and I don't know how to post only the video.
Reddit - Dive into anything
www.reddit.com
These are 100% the type of roles that should totally ignore "worker bee policy".I came across this thread on Reddit today; quite sobering. I genuinely found it a wee bit upsetting.
A warning about swearies in the Reddit comments as there's some pretty accurate comments regarding the Tories, and I don't know how to post only the video.
Reddit - Dive into anything
The food is there and has been cooked. Screw the shareholders.
Same as bus drivers letting non-fare payers on. He isn't paid enough to police the bus.
/unpopular opinion.
Maybe not that unpopular but the person not taking payment for goods or services could find themselves out of a job.
didn't read the comments, the video was enough. that must be utterly devastating for that poor lady. i know it's ok for me to say it because it's not my job on the line but i genuinely could not refuse food to a child.I came across this thread on Reddit today; quite sobering. I genuinely found it a wee bit upsetting.
A warning about swearies in the Reddit comments as there's some pretty accurate comments regarding the Tories, and I don't know how to post only the video.
Reddit - Dive into anything
What shareholders?
But I agree with your sentiment. Imagine the embarrassment for the kids as well.
I imagine the wagey works for bidfood/compass/bunzl or some other mega corp school dinner provider.
Yeah but only the poorest get them and it doesn't take into account inflation or the cost of living crisis.
Yes.
Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Academic year 2023/24
<p>This release contains the latest statistics on school and pupil numbers and their characteristics, including age, gender, free school meals (FSM) eligibility, English as an additional language, ethnicity, school characteristics, class sizes.</p><p>The publication combines information from the...
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
It's almost coming back to that time after the financial crisis when there were reports children taking sandwiches out of the bins to eat. Though, I thought it was older than 2017/18/19.
Starving pupils 'forced to rummage in school bins for food'
Starving pupils are being forced to rummage through the school bins to find food due to increasing levels of poverty and neglect, teachers have warned.
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British children so hungry they eat loo paper and scavenge in bins, says charity
Laurence Guinness, chief executive of the Childhood Trust, has warned of 'holiday hunger' and said parents are not able to feed their children over the summer without free school meals
www.mirror.co.uk
Hungry children 'eating from school bins' in Morecambe
A head teacher says pupils arrive at her school with empty lunchboxes and are "just fixated upon food".
www.bbc.co.uk
yup, utterly horrific.It's almost coming back to that time after the financial crisis when there were reports children taking sandwiches out of the bins to eat. Though, I thought it was older than 2017/18/19.
Starving pupils 'forced to rummage in school bins for food'
Starving pupils are being forced to rummage through the school bins to find food due to increasing levels of poverty and neglect, teachers have warned.British children so hungry they eat loo paper and scavenge in bins, says charity
Laurence Guinness, chief executive of the Childhood Trust, has warned of 'holiday hunger' and said parents are not able to feed their children over the summer without free school mealsHungry children 'eating from school bins' in Morecambe
A head teacher says pupils arrive at her school with empty lunchboxes and are "just fixated upon food".www.bbc.co.uk
who ever or what ever is to blame for that, be it parents, or government, i hope they suffer a slow and torturous demise. starving children in a 1st world country in the 21st century doesn't happen by accident.
Probably should be some kind of fall back system, where if the meals not paid for, they either have a small credit facility that can be used to cover as emergency whilst parents contacted. Or maybe sandwiches or something cheaper to make so at least the child eats "something".
Also from the comments on here regarding inflation I guess the qualifying criteria for free meals is harsh so should be revisited on which children can get free meals?
Also from the comments on here regarding inflation I guess the qualifying criteria for free meals is harsh so should be revisited on which children can get free meals?
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I think what happens now is all the parents pay into an account that the kids then get their food paid out of but there are also free meals but as usual the Tories changed the rules about who can and cant get free meals. That is where this women is having trouble. Poor parents but not poor enough according to the Tories for free meals cant afford to top the meal account up.
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At a time where unhealthy eating, poor families, and lack of education around food/cooking, i'd like to see schools provide mandatory good meals available for all students. This would involve the child or parent ordering before lunchtime or the day/week if wanted, and it becoming part of the education. This meal was prepared X way with X ingredients, it contains X nutrition which helps towards X health benefit. X can be grown like this at home in a pot on a windowsill or garden, and X is grown in X country due to X reason. But still allowing normal lunchtime time for socialising.
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When you have people turning up to food banks in taxis it's totally correct for any political party to be cautious how their hand outs are utilised. The poor have the same ability to scam the systems as the wealthy.
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I would be in favour of meals being provided for every pupil, free of charge. We don't charge the pupils for heating or lighting, so why charge for food. The cost per head to provide a meal for hundreds at a time is actually surprisingly low. The only reason they're paying what they are now is because it's run for profit.
I remember in 1985 having to pay 75p? 50p? or around that for milk and whatnot in Primary School every morning for the days meal after our names were taken.