Tory says lack of housing/space adversely affects our poorest children

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A room of one's own. The education secretary says that children need a room of their own to excel, and to not have one will adversely affect them mentally and in turn their education.

Yet his government denies children from the poorest families from having a room of their own with the bedroom tax.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10289664/People-who-fight-planning-reforms-are-stopping-children-growing-tall-says-Michael-Gove.html

 

The Education secretary said the reforms which have been pushed through to encourage more building were “social justice changes”.

He said that allowing planning restrictions to continue, confined children to smaller bedrooms where their educational growth was stunted.

 

The news came as Planning minister Nick Boles that the Tories must not defend “the privileges of a comfortable elite” who oppose development in the countryside.

 

Communities are coming to terms with changes to planning rules which make it easier for developers to win planning permission for new developments.

 

The changes were opposed by many Telegraph readers through its Hands Off Our Land campaign. Mr Gove was drawn into commenting on the planning reforms after a speech on the future of education when he discussed children in disadvantaged homes.

He said: “My colleague Nicholas Boles is making changes to the planning regime which attracts the attention of not least The Daily Telegraph. But these are changes that are social justice changes.”

 

Mr Gove referred to an extended essay by Virginia Woolf called A Room Of One's Own, published in October 1929 in which the author had argued “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”.

 

He said: “Virginia Woolf wrote about A Room Of One's Own and the fact that, throughout history, women often didn’t have a chance to fulfil their creativity because they didn't have a room of their own in which to write.

“There are children who don't have, poorer children who don’t have rooms of their own in which to do their homework, in which to read, in which to achieve their full potential.

 

“Nick Boles’ planning reforms will make it easier for more homes of a larger size to be built for children. And that’s why, when people oppose these planning reforms, I think they're actually standing in the way of helping our children to grow tall.”

 

With the bedroom tax, the poorest children in the UK will be outright denied a room of their own, and in turn they will suffer.

 

We need much more housing in the UK, until every child has a room of their own.

 

Tis better to have an oversupply of decent affordable housing, than an undersupply of such housing, and expensive slums.

 

No fertile person should be liable for the bedroom tax, else we could end up with children who do not have a room of their own.

 

All children in the UK should have a room of their own.