...to think this "joke" makes a mockery of safeguarding children and what not

[Yorkshiremummyof1]

Not one word of a fucking lie, I'm stood in my garden and I hear

"Daily Mail's just said Boris is going to give a £15 voucher for free school meal kids. I'm well happy, thats my Friday night drinks sorted"

Excuse my language, but I am fucking livid.

Ok I’m calm, thanks for pointing out I overreacted (not being sarcastic). I guess I’m just stressed and you know when you take something totally the wrong way and you shouldn’t!

It would make more sense to let the children turn up for a hot meal at lunch time each day and then people could also check they were okay at the same time.

Making a joke like that isn’t a safeguarding issue.

If the parents are neglecting their children or getting too wasted to care for them safely then that is a safeguarding issue.

Making a joke might be in poor taste, but you’re overreacting. Go have a nice drink to calm down.

Bizarre that this would make you angry op?

I mean even if it wasn’t a joke (which it clearly was) anger is a really odd reaction!?

I mean imagine a scenario where this was true I don’t think I could summon up any emotion except sadness for the poor kids involved tbh.

Our school provides hot meals at lunchtimes instead of vouchers. People prefer that, they are surveyed and that’s what the majority like. They also provide food for families, so preschoolers also get to eat too.

I’m seriously pissed off. I overheard my disabled neighbours sitting in their free car, talking about upgrading their satellite channels for their 50 inch TV and buying extra food for their free goat! Fucking scrounging council raised, overweight, dog and cat owning vegan fuckers!

(Trying to work out if I’ve used enough stereotypes.) 🤔

I always used to joke that all the child benefit went on vodka .
It was just a joke though, because I only actually used half of it for that.
😂

You need to tell them they have the headline wrong, it should be Johnson has done a U turn on the vouchers and they will continue to get them

Maybe they had £15 for food, and now they have the voucher, they can spend a little on themselves? Poor people are allowed to have fun, you know.

"It would make more sense to let the children turn up for a hot meal at lunch time each day and then people could also check they were okay at the same time"

Yay, let's make stressed parents walk an unspecified number of schoolkids with an unspecified number of siblings to a too-small dinner hall with nowhere for the parents/siblings to be safely.

You were always a contrarian @Xenia but you used to demonstrate intelligence - what happened?

What do you think it put their children at risk of?

My friend has been getting vouchers all along for her sons school dinners ,you can only buy food with them ,I did jokingly say it's a shame you can buy gin with them...

Smitemedamnsmaug
I've used mine for alcohol and never been questioned

Now that is disgusting. You shouldn't have wasted alcohol on the kids- :)

I didn't think you could spend the vouchers on alcohol and stuff like that? We get food hampers from our school, shame, I'd rather a bottle of vodka than another shit load of turnips!!

Ah fair enough OP.

I'm sure there will be the inevitable pile on from people who only read the OP!

Hope you're feeling less stressed soon!

Mine you if you are livid at that ,your anger would have gone through the roof if you had heard myself and my friends (we all have disabled children) joking on a rare night out that we were spending our children's ,DLA .

This isn't a safeguarding issue, its a benefits bashing issue.
People who are on the bottom rung of the ladder do tend to have their own culture and often use humour to deal with the embarrassment of, for example, needing to use a voucher or food bank.

It beats tugging your forelock.

@DoctorHildegardLanstrom and in no small part thanks to Marcus Rashford.

Let’s just take it seriously for a minute.
Let’s assume that the speaker was not only going to buy alcohol instead of feeding their children and genuinely found that funny.

You know what? There really are people like that out there.

You know what else? I couldn’t give a flying fuck about “my taxes” funding that, because for everyone out there doing that, there are more whose children are getting fed because of the support. I’ll take that.

It would make more sense to let the children turn up for a hot meal at lunch time each day and then people could also check they were okay at the same time.
Brilliant idea, that’s not going to involve travelling on public transport, breaking bubbles, self isolating, vulnerable , shielding children or from such families at all!
And who is going to open up the schools pay for the utilities , provide the meals, hand them out and ensure social distancing?
@Xenia

@PolloDePrimavera completely agree, a great way to use his platform. I am not a football fan, but certainly a fan of his now

What’s it got to do with safeguarding ? It’s just a not very funny, lazy joke.

I've definitely joked about spending the child benefit on gin.

So long as the children are fed, clothed and cared for, who cares?

YANBU. If people are that broke, they shouldn't be allowed to make jokes.

I think its DISCUSTING PERSONALLY

Ok I’m calm, thanks for pointing out I overreacted (not being sarcastic). I guess I’m just stressed and you know when you take something totally the wrong way and you shouldn’t!

A lot of us are pretty stressed at the moment, and we don't have our usual social networks to bounce things off. Things can take on a different meaning when they just echo round and round in your head

(I'm spending the next quarter's child benefit on a little summer holiday. I'm taking them too though because I can't afford child care ).