Hungry children in Stoke-on-Trent have been rummaging through bins looking for something to eat.
Hungry children in Stoke-on-Trent have been rummaging through bins looking for something to eat, leading to experts being called in by the council to assess the problem.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is reportedly setting up a Hardship Commission to get to grips with the issues facing the poorest people in the region after a local paper reported that local children were “scavenging through bins to eat leftovers”:
“Youngsters have been searching through bins in the Hollings Street and Brocksford Street area of Fenton before eating any leftovers…Concerned residents have raised the issue at a police meeting in Fenton.”
A commission has now been set up by the council to look at account evidence from individuals who have been affected by poverty and hardship.
The commission is being urged to look at payday loan companies and calls for more employers to pay the Living Wage to the city’s lowest-paid workers, according to the Sentinel.
Local MP Rob Flello has blamed the disturbing development on coalition cuts:
“The demand for help from foodbanks is increasing and I suspect the numbers are just the tip of the iceberg because they don’t include people who are too embarrassed to seek help or those who are surviving in other ways. But while foodbanks are doing a great job meeting desperate need, they cannot be seen as a long-term solution to food poverty.”
The revelations come at a time when it has been revealed that the top 20 per cent of households in Britain increased their disposable incomes last year. This at a time when most incomes fell.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for 2011/12 to 2012/13 show that the Gini for disposable household income is now 33.2 for 2012/13 – up from 32.3 in 2011/12.
26 Responses to “Coalition Britain: hungry children eating out of bins”
Cole
Labour aren’t perfect on this, but the Tory mindset is to smear poor people for being feckless.
Leon Wolfeson
I’d suggest going back and listening to exactly what Labour have said on this ><
rat man
Evidence of kids eating out of bins, is evidence of kids eating out of bins.
This article then jumps the shark and blames the coalition without finding out ANY facts, who are the kids, why are their parents unable to feed them, why are the PARENTS not with the kids.
Who here would send their kids out alone to scavenge for food.
No no, must be the coalition, because…err… BUSH DID 9/11.
Guest
Yes yes, you keep denying evidence, Why are then parents not eating from the bins too? Well, for one it’s far easier for them to be arrested for that.
Second, they’re probably working 12 hour shifts, hours away from home..
rat man
Oh so now the parents are working 12 hour shifts, hours away from home.
Just keep making stuff up.