Head teacher Debbie Whiting set up a food bank to support families in poverty
And it was. Within a few weeks of that visit Mrs Whiting had set up a food bank at North Denes primary in Great Yarmouth. When this proved invaluable to struggling families, the school offered to run a clothes washing service for those of them living in bed and breakfast accommodation. Now the school's librarian has turned hairdresser, cutting the locks of some pupils and de-licing children when required.
That visit to the girl's home was in December 2018. Mrs Whiting wanted to discuss the note with her mother, who insisted her daughter should not have said anything because"she had a couple of potatoes the neighbour had given her to eat that night". Mrs Whiting knows the parents struggling to pay their bills, the children fleeing domestic violence, the families at risk of eviction, and those who will today ask her for food to feed their children. She compares them - and the school she leads - to a swan gliding across a lake"but paddling along really hard underneath".
In the past three years the family's monthly income has dropped from about £2,200 a month to £1,600, including rent paid directly to his landlord. But a house move in October stretched finances further, forcing him to ask for help from the food bank at North Denes, where his nine-year-old daughter Tina is a pupil.
At its site on the northern fringes of the town, behind a derelict pub and beside a caravan park, the challenges facing modern coastal communities are being played out. Like many seaside towns, Great Yarmouth has suffered from the loss of jobs in traditional industries, which have been replaced with seasonal, insecure work in sectors such as tourism and food production.
This is so true of the UK today it's slowly coming out now,it's a sad storey but very Reverent of today plight of many UK citizens it's bad but now getting worse.
The fourth emergency service is HM Coastguard, as defined in the Civil Contingencies Act. The BBC also know this very well but push ignorant headlines.
It’s hard to believe in this day and age MPs can waste billions and people can’t afford to put food on the table, it shows this government isn’t interested in 99% of the population
vote tory
Parents have responsibility for their own children. The welfare system has undermined the family unit to the extent that people think the state is responsible for their child’s upbringing.
They are being made to fail so that an academy chain can swoop in and take over. The chain has links with local politicians - if the BBC has any investigating journalists these days.....
I always thought the AA was the fourth emergency service? That's what TV used to tell me.
So what’s the child benefit being spent on.?
unojen_wood Convert it to a charter school, pay exorbitant wages to administrators, reduce staffing levels and then they won't have time to care. That's what this regime does everywhere else.
I wonder how people coped during the 50s?
Parents should know how to cook already
In Dickensian England.
Fantastic effort but so sad that you have to do this!
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