Access to Free School Meal provision for children denied recourse to public funds in Birmingham. Dave Stamp & Sarina Hussain Introduction. This document will explore the phenomenon of food poverty for children in Birmingham denied free school meal provision as a consequence of their denial of recourse to public funds…. Read More
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Audits, injustices and ‘uncomfortable truths’.
Just this week, the Government has published an audit on racial and social inequality, highlighting severe and stark disparities in attainment and opportunity among different ethnic groups in the UK. Theresa May, the Prime Minister, has said that: “People who have lived with discrimination don’t need a government audit to… Read More
“I’ve Suffocated”
‘I’ve Suffocated’. Reflections from Eve Phillips, our Children’s Support Worker For many of the children we work with, whole childhoods have been spent waiting to be granted leave to remain with recourse to public funds. Often these are children who have been born in the UK and who have never… Read More
Every Child Matters…?
By Dave Stamp Over the past few months, as the ‘hostile environment’ agenda has become ever further entrenched, we have become ever more astonished by statutory agencies’ apparently wilfully disregard for the well-being of the children of parents subject to immigration control. We are becoming used to seeing the single… Read More
