Had one of those ''sentencing deprivation' days when you feel as a Youth Offending worker that there are just too many pieces to be picked up from a society whose main way of dealing with child poverty (in all its forms - financial, emotional, social) is to punish, censure and blame those who are mired in its state. Interesting, whilst we all gorged ourselves on Thatcher's carcass , that the UNICEF report on Child Wellbeing flew in under the radar - UK worst at Further Education opportunities; UK highest number of Young People not in Education Employment or Training(NEET - or maybe not so neat)... recent gains on child poverty reversed under the Coalition...government cuts related to low well-being among teenagers...C'mon Labour...C'mon Millipeed minor forget Sideshow Mags get back into the trenches and do something about child poverty.

A bright sunny morning as befits " Scrounger 500 day"; the day, on which welfare benefits are capped at £500 per week. Wheeze for the day appears to be for 'selected' London Boroughs - notably Bountiful Borough of Bromley - to move families out to Lincolnshire and other suitably distant points of the UK. It makes perfect sense to move those families on Welfare away from their support and kinship systems and plonk them down in areas of high unemployment (N.E Lincs - 8.7%; Youth Unemployment Lincs-wide increased by 447% over last 4 years..." Young People Losing Hope" ), where they presumably will have virtually no chance of moving off the claimant register. I gather that the only group amongst the good Burghers of Bromley, who are a bit put out by this brilliant piece of social engineering are local landlords, who may find it difficult to get anyone other than Housing Departments to pay exorbitant rents for run-down, sub-standard accommodation... now we enjoy such good relations with Kazakhstan maybe we could move 'the 500 club' there?