Author: News Reporter

Education budgets have been slashed, real terms pay is down 13% and schools now face a recruitment and retention crisis.

Kirsty Lowe, co-founder and chairwoman of MammaKind baby bank (covering Greenwich and Lewisham), said of the JRF annual poverty report: That one million children under the age of four are living in poverty is deeply worrying.

Highlighting the impact of inflation on people around the world, two-fifths (40 per cent) noted they now only send money to immediate family, rather than friends and distant relatives. one in nine people rely on money sent from friends and relatives who have migrated abroad for work.

There is no justification for children, however difficult their behaviour may be, to be permitted to disappear overnight or for longer periods without being missed.

The David Carrick case has exposed, yet again, the police’s apparent inability to detect potential offenders in their recruitment processes, and to root out offenders in the ranks.