The reality of child poverty in Britain | ITV News
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- Primary schools using washing machines to wash children's uniforms, teachers charging parents' phones because they have no electricity at home, and GPs treating kids for rickets. This is the poverty we have found in the UK in 2017.
In the second of two special reports, ITV Granada Correspondent Daniel Hewitt investigates the rise of in-work poverty in the north west of England.
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Years ago when I studied history a lecture said Britain would become first industrial nations to become a third world nation. I never expected it to happen so quickly. This is a consequence of giving more attention to finacial services over jobs for people and blaming the poor before looking at how the rich got richer. Its appalling
Children and their parents suffering from malnutrition in a first world country in this day and age. Unbelievable. Shocking.
Those teachers who takes care of the children feeding teaching and simple taking care all day long at school. Well done to those women from united kingdom hats off to you all. The affluent and pockets of poverty trapped are all being looked after by Teachers. This is big responsibilities for these professional teachers with great respect and love for children. I live you all. Do your best when the day comes along. Godis Great
What is happening to the people in England. People do some to help. Oh! God please make some arrangements to get help. What the Elites group of Middle Class please do something to help
@@utradayebhagwandeen7222 The middle class pay these stupid peoples benefits...
and there's still corrupt rich people who would rather spend money on like 10 cars lol
so you blame others for the poor to have kids they cannot afford to raise?
People have the right to spend the money they worked for on what they want at the end of the day why have children when you know you can't afford to feed them
Some of you seem to overlook the option that perhaps poverty struck after the kids were born.
Like parents getting fired, landlord throwing them out,, there's enough reasons.
Stop kicking down.
These people and that school deserve a huge round of applause! How different our world would be if everyone helped out the less fortunate. My eyes welled up when the lady said when asked what they want for Christmas the children said heat, food, a roof and love. I've been there as a child and it is such a sad and lonely place to be!
marianne dalton it brakes my heart knowing that people actually suffer like this. I want to help so badly but I have no idea where to start😞
Shame that people always rely on other to sort their problems.
Now, if people in mass stand up to what bother them, the politicians would no go approving Bill to give away billionaire's over sea donations things without the public consent.
English government take out of the own people's mouth to give away, It is easy to do charity with other people's money.
Where are the people to complain....? Totally Silence.
The problem is no different in Australia. We have a breakfast programme at Saint Peter’s, in Eastern Hill, in Melbourne for homeless people.
I see these parents who would do anything for their children. This breaks my heart for every country but Great Britain and America/I am American are especially heartbreaking because they are considered stable economies. Not stable enough to pay a living wage so that parents can feed their children.
where is all the money from children in need..in the bank earning interest...why is this still going on children going hungry
Good point well said
Poverty sure varies depending where you live. Eating garbage in the Philippines is considered poverty whereas in the UK not having power to charge your smartphone is poverty.
Im from this area. The situation is bad , they need help.
If a child is not born it cannot suffer or experience poverty hunger or abuse.
who makes the decision in the UK and any other developed country which environment the child is born into women and only women.
face facts. man can only have sex with the permission of a woman. you can not be held responsible for something you do not own or in charge of, man does not own a woman neither is he in charge of her, so he can't be held responsible for her body.
it is woman who decides when sex takes place. it is woman who decides whether a body gets pregnant or not. if she gets pregnant accidentally because her body is not compatible with the birth control methods on the market today, then it is her who makes the decision whether that pregnancy is terminated or taken to full term. it is her that decide which environment the child is born into.
so it is women who is creating misery for millions of children.
there is no law state a woman has to have children but if she doors she is doing it freely and the moment a woman decide to have a child she has an obligation to that child to make sure she is in the right environment where she can financially look after it where she chooses between full-time work and motherhood because she has chosen freely to have the child therefore it is her responsibility to bring a child up not societies.
but you women cannot deal with the truth that is why we have so many children suffering because you women want your cake and eat it.
let's be quite honest with you women it is any age, anywhere and any number. your environment plays no part in your decision when it comes to having children is that not true . I have over 4 million children in the UK that physical evidence that backs me up if I am wrong , tell me who is creating child poverty then?
It's not the government for the government is not forcing women to have children in an environment that is totally unsuitable to have children in. it's not man demanding women get pregnant then telling them which environs to bring a child into.
only women are creating the problem and only women can solve this.
it's not man, man can't even have sex unless the woman invites him in to have sex.
that's why the rape and sexual assault law exists to protect a woman's right to choose who touches her and who she invites in to have sex with her.
but women can't deal with that they don't even want to hear it, do you because a woman can never be wrong only a man.
RachelCB555 the whole country needs help. Instead the government are putting labels on parents and blaming them for the problem, when it the government that causes it. There is no national debt. That's just an excuse and lie to pay off corporation debt to the private banks they borrow from.
@Leon Barrie Nobody has hurt me. what are you talking about?
The only thing I have is logic and basic common sense which apparently is totally lacking in you, otherwise you wouldn't have come back with such a ridiculous comment.
A comment like that says everything about you does it not.
@Leon Barrie 😂😂 That's what I was thinking!
Absolutely appalling..rickets..this day and age ..shame on the British government..
Bless the little children.
Is this what we fought two wars for
And then they let the immigrants in
Jethro Teece you have no idea you big gammon, poverty was there before, during, and after immigration. Immigration is not what made people poorer, it’s the people in charge who have made dreadful decision after dreadful decision with absolutely no regard for poor people, and making it easier for the richest.
If this is a civilised country it shouldn't be like this
Britain's poverty is worst since ww1
This is shocking
This is Heart Breaking.
Why would you have kids when you can't afford to feed them
People can fall into poverty after they’ve had children. Circumstances can change so quickly through no fault of their own. Anyone can find themselves thrown into poverty .
@@cristiona22 true but not always
It was far worse in the 1960s
@3:36 They’re paying £51..31p a month for Sky 👀 and claim to be hard up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dont forget the nights out and daily trips too primark gregs macdonalds cigarettes trips abroad booze drugs and expensive. Dogs
Sky could be the name of their child. The bullet point above that is Mum, so I'm guessing those are personal expenses, clothes, medical bills, school supplies etc.
What happens to the kids in secondary school? No breakfast club there.
SlyDoll7 there was at my secondary school
@@atxdxstiny2324 Same Here
There is
mine did one. i volunteered there
Capitalism in a nut shell.
Decent jobs that provide a living for yourself and the ability to feed and cloth your children are at a minimum.
It's a hard plight to struggle generation after generation.
Dont have kids if you carnt afford them simple😬
What is our country coming to ,so sad for so many in 2024.
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And yet endless money for wars for Israel
Oh please, that's nonsense.
The UK needs to hand out condoms and birth control too many people r having kids at a early age then maybe they would have more control food bank s and housing would not be exploding very sad thank you Jeanette from NYC USA
Very true its like the african states you see in poverty yet they still khock out kids its no better than a man wants a flash life style with champagne tastes and beer money stop giving money too young single or unemployed parents period it would nip tjis problem in the head over night
They think it's bad 5 years ago. How are things now? Hmm..
When asked the question of rickets and the guys deflected and looked a way....I knew there was exaggeration. There's about 120 cases a year out of millions.. Almost entirely South Asian and black migrants that come over with it.
My school never had a breakfast club.
A lot of this so called poverty is self induced. Why have kids if you cannot afford to support them???? It irritated me when I was growing up ( from a care background) and just pisses me off even more now I'm older and the cycle continues.
Anyone can end up in poverty
Needs before wants.
I feel sorry for the kids.
its sinful that i have to watch this for homework T_T
You S1 from Mearns?
@@charlie9051 Maybe...
I genuinely believe that alot of this is down to parents not being able to budget
That's because you have never had to love like this its easy to think that . only takes for you to be sick,of work an yo catch up after that loss is painful. And budget what? More money is going out then earned so how can you budget what you don't have?
Actually that's where you're wrong, I have a child and another on the way. We cancelled our sky, got cheaper phone plans, cheaper Internet connection, buy as much asda brand food as possible, cancelled our AA breakdown amongst other things . It might not sound much in terms of saving money and budgeting but it has made a huge difference.
So yes I genuinely believe that a lot of the issues around this sort of thing are to do with people not being able to budget correctly. Obviously if you you don't earn enough to cover the essential bills then that is a very different and difficult situation. But I think that if there were education and help to do with budgeting it would help some families.
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I have the utmost sympathy for all of these people, but one thing that caught my attention. Jane and Paul, both working. When they showed their outgoings written down, Sky television came up as £53 per month. I have free view television. Surely they could do without Sky and just have free view. It’s not that bad !
why do we have children living in poverty. the simple reason that nobody can face or talk about is the fact we allow women to have children at any age, anywhere and any number that why we have child poverty.
we call ourselves a civilised society, well girls of 12 years old were having children way back in the 13th century and we called them days the barbaric age even the Victorian days we had young girls having children. we had women having kids anyway, any time, any number.
so it seems we've have progressed in our technology but not in our behaviour especially when it comes to women having children.
why do I blame women for child poverty logic which is absent from about 98% of the human population. it's why society I live in is is such a mess and getting worse. no beacon face the truth about anything.
throughout the civilised countries woman are in charge of herself, she is her own boss that's what all these women are taking these men to court for inappropriate touching or sexual harassment. for no man can touch or have sex with a woman without her permission.
man can only have sex, but he can only have sex with the woman's permission that's why the rape and sexual assault law exists to protect the rights of woman's to choose who touches or as sex with her modern woman has to invite a man in to have sex with her.
you cannot be held responsible for something you are not in charge of all do not own. Man does not own a woman neither is he in charge of her not in the civilised world.
so let's deal with the truth who is creating unnecessary misery and suffering for millions of children over 4 million children in the UK are living in poverty because of the selfish behaviour of women.
I'll prove it
1) Who has to give permission before sex can take place between man and woman.. it's the woman.
2) Who is responsible for the woman's body... only the woman is for she is in charge of it.
3) Who decides whether the woman's body gets pregnant or not.... the woman man can't demand nothing of a woman, she is not his property she is her own boss.
4) if she gets pregnant by accident, who decides whether that pregnancy is terminated or taken to full term the woman and only the woman.
5) Who decides which environment the child will be broad into the woman.
so who is creating child poverty WOMEN.
for it is woman who decides when sex takes place, it is woman who decide whether her body gets pregnant or not, it is woman who decides whether the pregnancy is terminated or taken to full term, and it is woman who decide which environment the child is born into. man has no saying in any of these decisions, he can't even touch a woman let alone have sex without her permission.
So it is women who are creating poverty for over 4 million children in the UK alone.
this is why I can say 100% we will never ever eradicate child poverty because for ONE! man can't get it through his thick skull that he doesn't own a woman any more. Two! women want to be in charge to themselves but don't want to take responsibility for what they create a still want to blame man.
you have more women MPs than ever before in the UK you have a woman prime minister so why don't you ladies eradicate child poverty for only a woman can tell another woman she is not going to have children she is unemployed.
while swimming are going to do this is because the health and safety of our children is paramount.
when a woman decides to have a child she has an obligation to that child to make sure she brings it into the right environment to choose between motherhood and a full-time job instead of wanting both that is what we have all these problems with children today and it's getting worse because women want their cake and eat it.
iit's not up to the school or the rest of society to feed a woman's child it is up to her to make sure she is in the right environment before she allows the body to get pregnant, that is an environment where she has a financial ability to feed their child and to look after it that's what's wrong with society. but society is so political correct are so scared of speaking the truth it would rather have millions of children suffering as long as know one point a finger at women, we can all point the finger at man at the wrong key is done towards children but we can't point the finger at woman can we she must always be innocent.
which makes me laugh when society says especially women, That the health and safety of our children is paramount, the word means to be the most important, to come before all else, to be number one on the list, the only thing that is paramount in society I live, is a selfish wants of women and children are suffering for it.
Joe Wood How about instead of saying that poor people can’t have children, that we instead distribute the wealth of the U.K. more evenly using the economic levers of tax and decent wage distribution. The gap between CEO pay and the average wage has grown by about 400% in the last few decades. When politicians said the wanted to return to Victorian values I thought they meant moral values. Not the practises of homelessness, begging and Rickets. I am amazed that anyone would vote for a government that allowed this to happen in a wealthy first world county in the 21st century.
Why should we distribute the wealth, if someone works hard to better themselves why should they give to others, some of which can't be bothered to get a job and just keep having kids. Before anyone kicks off, we have been on that side of things when my husband was out of work.
How can you tell when a society is not governed correctly, when it is infested with problems.
what are charities physical evidence of, of a society that hasn't got a clue how to govern itself.
What do charities do, do they solve the problem, NO!, they make money out of them.
I am 63 years old and I been listening to people talk about child poverty since I was able to understand what people were saying, you have been throwing money at child poverty and it is only increased because you are not dealing with why the problem exist, you are only chasing after it and millions of children in the UK and across the civilized world are suffering because of this inability to physically do something to protect children.
If you have a problem the only way you can solve it is by back engineering it to its source the moment the problem starts and doing something physically to stop it from starting, the human race is not capable of doing that, that's why child poverty is increasing because you cannot face the truth who is creating it, and because of this failure millions of children are going to have to suffer and will carry on suffering because of the pathetic way society operates.
The human species claims to be an intelligent species, when you say you are intelligent what you are saying is you have two abilities.
The first is the ability to understand to be able to take in information.
The second is the most important part, because it physically shows that you are intelligent and not just saying you are because it makes you look good on the world stage.
That is having the ability to act upon what you understand upon the information you have taken in.
the human race doesn't have the second ability that is why it is infested with problems like child poverty.
I will prove it here with two examples.
The first. I can ask anybody and they'll tell me cars cause congestion the government understands cars cause congestion it proves this in its road charging. so you all past the first ability, the ability to understand to be able to take in information.
But you fail on the second ability because on that information, you get a car contribute to the congestion then moan about the congestion you have created through your failure to be able to act upon what you understand, that's why congestion exists and for no other reason.because your failure to understand you are overcrowded people drive cars so people create congestion the congestion on your streets shows the congestion in your towns, cities and country.
The second. if you allow a woman to have a child if she is unemployed then she's going to create child poverty. but I doubt it, reading the comments on this site that you have the first ability. and the ability to understand to take in information. but let's say you do.
so with this knowledge you allow a woman to have a child in any environment, a woman will bring a child in any environment, that is physical proof that shows you do not have the second ability. If you did this site wouldn't exist, these children wouldn't exist there would be no child poverty it is because you do not have the second ability that is the ability to act upon what you understand we have millions of children suffering.
It why your system of dealing with crime is a system of endless crime. where you chase them you lock them up, then you set them free, I challenge anyone to show me how does that system create a safe environment for you all to live in, it doesn't, it just makes money for Private profitable prisons, so a few people can live in luxury being fed off the endless crime going in and out of there Private prisons.
You wonder why the society you live in is in such a mess. society is in desperate need of intelligent leadership which it has never had and will never have while you keep voting these insane people in to govern you.
I called them insane because they live on an island which is a limited space and to prove they understand that, they all based there policies on endless growth, how more insane could you be to think you can break the laws of physics.
a law that states it is physically impossible to endlessly put something into something that is not endless. but that what all politicians believe they can do and you voting them in you also believe in this insane system that will result with the total destruction of this planet and yourselves.
it is no wonder you can't solve anything the most simplest of problems is beyond your capability to solve because you are all insane.
This is why we left England. My family and I couldn't see any future there for working class people.
SlyDoll7 where did you go?
@byblis persephone Australia.
@Jake Dean We could afford it but the knock-on effects of people in poverty in our community was too awful and as a result the schools went downhill.
You can afford to go to Australia when you have to prove to the authorities there that you either have enough money to support yourself, or that you have a job to go to, but you struggle in the UK? Who else are you trying to kid? Not me.
@@jetpigeon8758 yes, we were very lucky in that we got financial help with flights and moving costs from a family member. But my husband also has qualifications which are in demand in Australia. Our life in the UK would not have been as bright because we could not afford to live in a decent area...housing costs were extortionate...here in Oz, wages are higher. Yes it costs to get here...but my advice to young people is to work hard...get qualifications that will ensure Australia or Canada will welcome you and give you visas. Then move.
I thought the UK was such a great place with universal health Care..
Just cause the health care is universal doesn't mean everything else is
there's no such thing as a universal health. Each person is responsible for their own health. Nothing is free. The UK is no exception. It's citizens support a monarchy.. meanwhile, their children starve.
H Pn The monarchy isn't in charge just saying
that's the point... they don't do anything but live in luxury.. do public appearances.. The UK folks pay for it all via taxes.
My Breakfast Club never had a School.
They need to hand out birth control with the food life is hard enough kids having kids is so 😢 ty Jeanette from NYC USA
These young mothers are thier own worst enemy no sympathy
How does it help families like they said when if you use the foodbank more than 3/times they call social and take kids anyway so exactly how are they helping
Bread and butter at least it's something to eat.
Stm homework fr fr
Blame Conservative
she talks about hunger, poverty and poor living standards but sits in front of a 2K Mac. Congratulations (although could be stolen).
That's fake poor
Not her property.
Totally agree l work in a supermarket that a lot of children with there mums visit some not all know every trick in the book crying because have to use food bank same people are buying 40 cigs aday and 2 to 3 £3 pound scratch cards so were do the need the food bank this is what people are going on about when they work pay taxes to supply this sort of righteous in these people as l said not all but plenty do Jackie
So why are they breeding?
Exactly why, why do people have kids if they can't take care of them. If you can't take care of yourself and provide for yourself then why bring a innocent child into the world to suffer the same life.
It can happen accidentally
well with that logic humanity would have died long ago, or most of Africa would have decreased instead of increased. Tbh england isn’t that bad, most will survive, unlike Africa and part of Asia.
Poverty is relative. In the 1920's/30's poverty meant that there was no roof over your head, or shoes on your feet, and little food. In 2018 Poverty means you don't have a playstation 4.
And try yourself talk to anyone about politic...
Which problem? We don't have any problem here....Where are you seeiing any problems in this country? We are the best in the world. Lol.
Myself and my wife dont earn as much as those parents and we arnt poor we have 2 kids, our own house and 2 cars.... 🤷♂️ Did anyone notice the sky package 😂 £51 must have a decent few channels for that the poor bugger.
why is this comment section being monetized itv
wow...why doesn't the left wing media report on this more?....are they like the liberal media in the US?
They get funding but the local government suck and most people are on welfare ... how much that couple said they get is completely inaccurate, 2 full time working parents would never struggle that much, £500 a month rent, wages on minimum wage would at least of been £1000-£1200 take home a month EACH so around £2000 .. and that stupid ass doctor trying to associate rickets with the kids that come in but sais it's "like" what you'd see with rickets!
A lot of these people up north are just lazy mf's
1 trillion in iraq. 1trillion in afghanistan. Meanwhile children in the u.k are starving. Children in the u.s.a are starving! Where are your priorities you people?
Maybe abortion should be made easier, more understood and less-stigmatised?
Has anyone ever told you that you are heartless? I’m telling you now!
Maybe people should get a brain and learn about contraceptives.
These mothers are breeding like rabbits relying on benefits id make ut law that the state dosent pay child support youd so see a dramatic reduction in child poverty then as they would think twice about getting khocked up on a Saturday night by a drunk stranger
When is the government going to put the needs of its citizens first? Develop nations have millions of their citizens in poverty, homeless and jobless. If not unemployed, they still can't get out of poverty because the cost of living is high and taxes keep rising. They are busy putting everyone else first, but people that vote for them to do something. The UK and the US should take a look at whàts in front of them. You can't have open borders and save the world if you neglect the millions of your citizens suffering in poverty. The United States is the land of freedom and opportunity, but how long would it be under open borders and high poverty.
fake news
This is good stuff
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