Use And Abuse Of Soup Kitchens

[catmiss]

As with all services there will be a minority who abuse them but too intensive scrutiny of soup kitchen/food bank users  just deters the people the service is trying to help. Most users of food banks do need a referral from statutory or voluntary agencies, as a previous voluntary sector worker I’ve had a few suspicions but how do you prove this when people appear to be in need. I’d rather 1 person got one over on me but 20 got the support they needed 

[Halibut]

7 hours ago, catmiss said:

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As with all services there will be a minority who abuse them but too intensive scrutiny of soup kitchen/food bank users  just deters the people the service is trying to help. Most users of food banks do need a referral from statutory or voluntary agencies, as a previous voluntary sector worker I’ve had a few suspicions but how do you prove this when people appear to be in need.

Great post.

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I’d rather 1 person got one over on me but 20 got the support they needed 

Sadly, there seem to many who have an opposite view.

 

[hauxwell]

On 06/11/2019 at 17:57, pattricia said:

Not at all.! Whatever reply I give,  you never agree with me, so it’s a waste of time !

Good answer and I agree with you.

[pattricia]

28 minutes ago, hauxwell said:

Good answer and I agree with you.

Thank you.

[Mister M]

Just today Sky News has written about one of the many 10s of thousands condemned to being homeless in this country. Tom has Spina Bifida, is doubly incontinent, and is sleeping out in this weather. Read about him here:

https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-meet-tom-just-one-of-the-320-000-people-who-are-homeless-in-the-uk-11857049

Edited November 8, 2019 by Mister M

[Guest makapaka]

On 06/11/2019 at 17:57, pattricia said:

Not at all.! Whatever reply I give,  you never agree with me, so it’s a waste of time !

So what is your position on this? 
 

should food banks be banned?

should more be done to prevent the need for food banks?

should people who use food banks be means tested?

 

[max]

On 06/11/2019 at 07:56, prolific said:

do you not think people do that to gain food,money?

it would be harder to hand over money to a homeless person dressed better than yourself.

food banks are often full of junkies and people from Europe  

I've collected food for S6 Food Bank on many occasions and also visited their distribution centre and can tell you that you're 50% right.

 

The centre is NOT full of junkies, quite the opposite as the majority of people there were in work and claiming benefits which had been stopped for one reason or another.

 

The centre IS full of people from Europe - Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland in fact.

[Stranza]

Did anyone catch https://www.itv.com/hub/britains-hidden-hunger-exposure/2a7613a0001 ?

Hidden hunger.

It's 2019 and we still have families being hungry.

Not addicts or immigrants.

Our society has children hungry because we've gone backwards and now have undeserving poor again.

For Shame.

[prolific]

On 08/11/2019 at 14:31, Stranza said:

Did anyone catch https://www.itv.com/hub/britains-hidden-hunger-exposure/2a7613a0001 ?

Hidden hunger.

It's 2019 and we still have families being hungry.

Not addicts or immigrants.

Our society has children hungry because we've gone backwards and now have undeserving poor again.

For Shame.

itv extrapolating overweight children, yep  got about 2 minutes in before i turned it of  

[Halibut]

54 minutes ago, prolific said:

itv extrapolating overweight children, yep  got about 2 minutes in before i turned it of  

Do you know what extrapolating means? I wonder if the word you meant to use was exploiting?