To be shocked malnutrition children

[allabouttheboy]

Just read that children living in catered asylum seeker hotels are suffering malnutrition because both they and the adults are not being given enough food. Some parents have been rummaging through rubbish bins to try and find enough food for their children. And some schools are giving children two lunches to try and make sure they get enough to eat.
The private hostels are paid well by the government to provide accommodation and food. So they are deliberately not giving enough food to maximise profit.
I have read teachers saying they have been trying to shout about this, but no one is listening.
I am shocked that this is happening to children living in Britain.

P.s. an asylum seeker in catered accommodation gets £8.24 a week for all other costs apart from food and housing.

Cruelty, pure and simple. Shocking.

I agree that it's pure cruelty and all part of the punishing asylum seekers in order to keep certain voters onside plan the government is currently going for.

Anyone who thinks a policy that actively starves people is a good policy needs to give their head a wobble.

Tory supporters and donors need their reward. Who cares if children go without? The important thing is that Tory donors make a profit.

Remember the shit rations given to UK children during Covid?

I think it is calculated and an abomination.

Social injustice is part of the tory makeup. Got to keep those profits up, no longer an mp old boy, have seat on the board for all the favours you done us.

It’s disgusting. I remember being shocked at reading an article a couple of years ago about children in the UK because 2500 children had been admitted to hospital due to malnutrition. No one cares it seems, well no one who can do anything about it anyway. I can only assume these figures are rising and if the people in charge don’t care about children being malnourished, they won’t care about asylum seekers either, neither can vote. It’s the people who can vote who need to show them we do care when the time comes.

It's appalling. This government is very cruel.

It's also appalling that there are families reliant on foodbanks.

P.s. an asylum seeker in catered accommodation gets £8.24 a week for all other costs apart from food and housing.

Toiletries, communication, transport, period supplies, clothes, additional food...

I vote we make all politicians live there for, I don't know, 6 months. See how they like it.

@allabouttheboy, you say not enough food, very little money, yet they stand around the accommodation smoking. Where does the money come from for these cigarettes? I have friends who live in the next road to one of these hotels and they tell me they see the refugees stood around smoking. They also beg and harass people as they go by. Sometimes spitting at them if they don't give money. Some do give money but instead of buying food for their children they choose to buy cigarettes. I'm also pretty sure there are some children who were born in the UK who are also hungry and would like two dinners at school but they don't get offered them.

@allabouttheboy, where did you read this OP?

Nobody in this country should go hungry. Meanwhile in the house of Lords £300 payment to sign your name and a nice subsidised restaurant for lunch.

I do wish you'd change your MN name. I look at the awful post, note the name and every time think, "no not caring".

It's not just kids seeking asylum. We live on a housing estate very close to a very poor area so the majority of the kids at school are from low income homes where there are no working parents. The school have a free breakfast club, then put buttered toast out for the kids at the office on the way in to school for kids who can't get to breakfast club as there is no one up to get them ready. They have free fruit and milk at break then free lunches. We have a quarterly donation event where kids clothing and toys are handed out and a benefits advice service is present to chat at that. They provide PE kit and sandshoes for every pupil. It's still not enough and my friend who is a TA found a little girls shoe that she had walked in with had entirely disintegrated and had to go out and buy her new shoes. The level of poverty that far too many children are living in our country is disgusting.

It is shocking and degrading for our nation. The government dare not give increased allowances to migrants, asylum seekers etc because they are frit of their supporters and rabid right-wingers. The vast majority of our population are kind & caring and would not want these families to suffer.

Exactly all of the above. Government does tend to want to keep the bigots n racists on board.

Yeah my dad works at one of the hotels and the good he brings back sometimes to show us is disgusting,

Firstly it's all super salty even the kids food and once it consisted of 1 chicken nugget, 7 chips and one stem of broccoli.

There's always one...

This.

Do you honestly think that because some asylum seekers smoke, it’s ok for children to be malnourished?

Is it juuuuust possible @caringcarer that your friends are seeing the people who do not have kids, who are smoking cut price black market tobacco bought with money they have been out begging for, have gone without other things to buy their tobacco, and are a tiny percentage of the actual number of people we're talking about?

Or is your friend taking names and details from each one, monitoring how much they smoke and which has kids and so on and on.

I assume your friend is going to the shops with them to see them buying cigs instead of food for children...

Being a refugee does not mean you are a saint. Should only the saintly, faultless, epitomes of perfection be permitted to seek asylum, and the arseholes, weak willed, feckless ones left to rot - because as appealing as that sounds some days, thats now how human rights works.

And it's usually this one. The username is a joke.

All perfectly acceptable if you're a Tory voter. I mean, we don't want the wrong sort of immigrants cluttering up the place, do we....

It always astonishes me when people are, or pretend to be, surprised at these stories in the media. Be horrified. Be angry. Be prepared to change what self centered bastards you vote into power. And, possibly, be prepared to expand your media choices beyond the Daily Bloody Heil and the Boris Broadcasting Corporation.

But unless you've been in a box or a bubble the last 15 or so years, don't pretend to be surprised.

Initially in the guardian, but I googled and read a bit more elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/17/children-in-englands-asylum-hotels-suffering-from-malnutrition?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Terrible. In the guardian article one family were in despair as the chef would not even tell them ingredients in the food and they had a child with food allergies.

And I know other children are living in poverty.
But in this case private companies are being paid to provide enough food by us the taxpayers. There is no reason for this to happen except the greed of those firms and a public that does not care.

It's a shame people don't take more self responsibility, but as is and some adults have more children then they can provide for it will always be thus.