So sick of hearing about bloody free school meals food parcels

[muminthesummer]

It's been done to death now. It was wrong, there's been apologies, it won't happen again. FFS please let it go now.

Ah yes, don’t bore yourself with starving children, OP.

I think that it's clear that a government department needs to be set up to cover child poverty and the issues associated with it. Far too much is expected from schools - they should be educating children. You wouldn't go to a doctor to get children's clothes or a hospital to get petrol so why would should a school be expected to feed kids who aren't there? I appreciate there are kids who need feeding and I agree they should be fed. But schools shouldn't deal with this. They are struggling to educate as it is. We need an entirely separate department/system to help those who need it, rather than pushing more work onto schools.

Keep shouting it from the rooftops. This is not a jog on situation. It is another Tory crime against the non rich. Why would you let them off the hook so easily?

OK the OP has not thought abpout it but hey, don't roast her. At least it is still in our thoughts

End child starvation and do something about it

Or we could plan financially before having children.

I'm sure many people did ..then well redundancy/covid/illness / abusive partners etc

Or we could plan financially before having children.

How can anyone have this attitude, when we are all living through this totally unprecedented time?

Partners die, people lose jobs, people have to leave abusive relationships, circumstances change. Get your head out of your arse.

Chartwells weren't offered a Government contract. Our local schools are deciding which provider to go with to provide FSM hampers.

Is the £30 food voucher per child or family? It doesn't cost £30 to feed a child 5 lunches. Many people have this budget for the whole family for all meals

@muminthesummer

It's been done to death now. It was wrong, there's been apologies, it won't happen again. FFS please let it go now.

How do you know it won't happen again?

It's been entirely predictable that this would happen as soon as the bullshit myths about people on benefits meant the government listened to the complaints about vouchers and stated that food parcels were the preference this time round.

It'll happen again because the same shit will be spouted about cigarettes and alcohol and people will listen, then the likes of Marcus Rashford will have to advocate for children again.

Bring back Captain Tom Moore!

It's not £30, it is £15 voucher per child per week.

Interestingly FSM at school usually budget for about 80p per day for the food element, the balance covers wages, overheads etc

Well as long as the people who think this is okay arent coming out with shit like "we are all in this together" on face mask threads.

@HowToSurvive2021

Or we could plan financially before having children.

And just abandon children whose parents are in unexpected situations?

We're in the middle of a fucking pandemic ffs. How are people meant to have planned for that exactly?

Read something else if you're bored of it! It's not compulsory to pay attention. Why the need to stop it being discussed?

@Keeping2ChevronsApart

Is the £30 food voucher per child or family? It doesn't cost £30 to feed a child 5 lunches. Many people have this budget for the whole family for all meals

So it’s better to keep giving a private company the £30 so they can spend £5 of it on a child and pocket the rest? Yes much better to do that than run the risk of that child getting a extra meal!

@ineedaholidaynow

It's not £30, it is £15 voucher per child per week.

Interestingly FSM at school usually budget for about 80p per day for the food element, the balance covers wages, overheads etc

No wonder people are fuming then. If you have 3 kids and get a £45 voucher that's a great boost if you're struggling with food bills.

I don’t think it’s been done to death enough.

It’s a shameful shameful state of affairs.

@HowToSurvive2021

Or we could plan financially before having children.

Hello captain hindsight!

Of course it will happen again, or something very similar. Which is why we need to make a big fuss, every single time, and for more than the duration of your boredom threshold, which is too short.

Government corruption is never 'done to death', is it?

There was an error of judgment but the whole thing has been slightly misunderstood and misrepresented.

Schools or local councils appoint a private catering company. If you pay £3 for a school lunch (or that money is provided as FSM) then that’s NOT for the ingredients - but all the costs involved. So it might work out to be £1.50:for the actual food. And you can’t really replicate all the ingredients ina food parcel - 100g of mince, quarter of an onion, etc. They kind of tried to do that - e.g. potato and beans - but it looked bad.

It should always have been vouchers BUT £15 for five lunches is actually pretty generous!

Out of sight out of mind eh? We'll keep talking about it until kids are no longer starving.... please do bear with us.

@Notcontent

There was an error of judgment but the whole thing has been slightly misunderstood and misrepresented.

Schools or local councils appoint a private catering company. If you pay £3 for a school lunch (or that money is provided as FSM) then that’s NOT for the ingredients - but all the costs involved. So it might work out to be £1.50:for the actual food. And you can’t really replicate all the ingredients ina food parcel - 100g of mince, quarter of an onion, etc. They kind of tried to do that - e.g. potato and beans - but it looked bad.

It should always have been vouchers BUT £15 for five lunches is actually pretty generous!

They appoint private companies because schools are not given enough funding to provide decent cooked meals on site....

And why do families need these parcels in the first place? Because theyre paid shit wages as all of the country’s wealth is sucked up by a small amount of billionaires and millionaires.

It’s a mess.