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lindsay ormerod 28-02-2008 17:26
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[quote=blazey;538038]. You're child or children would probably also have a high chance of also having a similar attitude and no parent wants their children to end up like that, though of course not all do end up with that kind of attitude.

Ehhhh ???:confused:

panther 28-02-2008 17:29
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:oya try ya best blazey dont ya?.....:rolleyes:

lindsay ormerod 28-02-2008 17:30
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As my young nephew says..."confused .com!":rolleyes:

panther 28-02-2008 17:33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 537878)
Take a couple who have income of say £70,000 per year(and there are quite a few in this dy and age) I have to ask do they really need child benefit,
NO they dont!

i mean whats ....
£18.10 a week for the eldest child
£12.10 a week for each additional child ....to someone on £70.000 a year??:confused:....****** all

slinky 28-02-2008 17:43
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I don't agree with this.

next week, I am having to put my kids back on packed lunches. The eldest is ok, he will eat them ( but then again....he will eat a scabby donkey ) BUT youngest refusesa to eat the school meals :(

In winter, I always try to talk them into having school dinners because I like to think they are having something nice and warm for dinner ( and yes...they ALWAYS have breakfast, and are not allowed out of my house until they have done ) But a nice warm dinner, I think, is a must in winter, the only problem is youngest will not eat it, would rather go hungry, and I can't stand the thought of that either. So I want him back on packed lunches next week.

Yes I understand that packed lunches CAN be limiting..... BUT better something in his tummy than NOTHING. He has a good breakfast before school and a good tea when he gets in, not all parents are total Numpties, therefor I suggest people butt out and let us parents get on with raising our children.

It makes me laugh when people go on and on about " oh but it can't be healthy giving them a cold dinner " :mad: Back in the days when people were on rations, do you think they got 4 square meals a day?? all healthy?? all warm?? NO, and Elderly people are living to 100 years old, more and more............. didn't kill them did it??

panther 28-02-2008 17:49
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I don't agree with this.

next week, I am having to put my kids back on packed lunches. The eldest is ok, he will eat them ( but then again....he will eat a scabby donkey ) BUT youngest refusesa to eat the school meals :(

In winter, I always try to talk them into having school dinners because I like to think they are having something nice and warm for dinner ( and yes...they ALWAYS have breakfast, and are not allowed out of my house until they have done ) But a nice warm dinner, I think, is a must in winter, the only problem is youngest will not eat it, would rather go hungry, and I can't stand the thought of that either. So I want him back on packed lunches next week.

Yes I understand that packed lunches CAN be limiting..... BUT better something in his tummy than NOTHING. He has a good breakfast before school and a good tea when he gets in, not all parents are total Numpties, therefor I suggest people butt out and let us parents get on with raising our children.

It makes me laugh when people go on and on about " oh but it can't be healthy giving them a cold dinner " :mad: Back in the days when people were on rations, do you think they got 4 square meals a day?? all healthy?? all warm?? NO, and Elderly people are living to 100 years old, more and more............. didn't kill them did it??
Attachment 10950agree with ya thereAttachment 10951

hedman2003 28-02-2008 20:54
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Originally Posted by hedman2003 (Post 537755)
I've recently been on a course with colleagues who work for the school meals service who came up with an interesting suggestion regarding scrapping or reducing child benefit but providing all school age pupils with a "free" school dinner.

The argument was that it would ensure all children received at least one hot nutritional meal per day as many of the kids did not have breakfast and sometimes their tea was very limited in terms of nutritional value.

It would also provide employment opportuniities for parents working in the school kitchens and increasing the working population

It would increase the social skills of pupils sitting down with their peers and using a knife and fork which they dont do at home

It would ensure that the child benefit was used positively and for the benefit of the child

It seemed a really good idea to me and I couldn't immediatly think of any major negatives

any thoughts?
thanks for all your feedback. the intention would not be to make anybody worse off but simply that an element of the child benefit say £8.75 (the weekly cost of a school meal) would be deducted from child benefit for parents who have to pay. Parents in receipt of free school meals would have no reduction in their child benefit. All school age pupils would have a nutritious meal at lunchtime.

Several respondents are seeing the bigger picture regarding creation of part time jobs for parents, greater income would create better menus and varieity.

slinky 28-02-2008 21:03
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Originally Posted by hedman2003 (Post 538193)
thanks for all your feedback. the intention would not be to make anybody worse off but simply that an element of the child benefit say £8.75 (the weekly cost of a school meal) would be deducted from child benefit for parents who have to pay. Parents in receipt of free school meals would have no reduction in their child benefit. All school age pupils would have a nutritious meal at lunchtime.

Several respondents are seeing the bigger picture regarding creation of part time jobs for parents, greater income would create better menus and varieity.
BUT WHY?? If you are working, you have to pay for the meals anyway RIGHT?? so whats the difference it being taken out of CHB or paying every friday like we do now?? It's swings and round abouts. Whats the point??

The point is.....yet another thing we would be MADE TO DO! instead of having a choice. I mean come on, in this country we don't have many choices we can make for ourselves.

If I choose to put my children on Packed lunches, then as a mother, that is MY choice. And no-one would badger me into doing otherwise.

onlyme 28-02-2008 21:34
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Originally Posted by hedman2003 (Post 538193)
thanks for all your feedback. the intention would not be to make anybody worse off but simply that an element of the child benefit say £8.75 (the weekly cost of a school meal) would be deducted from child benefit for parents who have to pay. Parents in receipt of free school meals would have no reduction in their child benefit. All school age pupils would have a nutritious meal at lunchtime.

Several respondents are seeing the bigger picture regarding creation of part time jobs for parents, greater income would create better menus and varieity.
Thats me stitched up again. I may as well just change my name to 'Shafted'.

cashman 28-02-2008 21:44
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hedman2003 (Post 538193)
thanks for all your feedback. the intention would not be to make anybody worse off but simply that an element of the child benefit say £8.75 (the weekly cost of a school meal) would be deducted from child benefit for parents who have to pay. Parents in receipt of free school meals would have no reduction in their child benefit. All school age pupils would have a nutritious meal at lunchtime.

Several respondents are seeing the bigger picture regarding creation of part time jobs for parents, greater income would create better menus and varieity.
sorry hedman2003 its you thats not seeing the big picture n probably have no wish to, most folk who have responded disagree.

jaysay 29-02-2008 10:01
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Quote:
Originally Posted by panther (Post 538053)
NO they dont!

i mean whats ....
£18.10 a week for the eldest child
£12.10 a week for each additional child ....to someone on £70.000 a year??:confused:....****** all
Exactly what I was saying panther, but some one on low income could do with that little bit extra

MUMMIBOO 29-02-2008 21:48
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But you get child benefit from when the child is born does that mean you would lose out until the child was at school?!

slinky 29-02-2008 21:50
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Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO (Post 538686)
But you get child benefit from when the child is born does that mean you would lose out until the child was at school?!
knowing this government..... what do you think :rolleyes:

lancsdave 29-02-2008 21:51
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Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO (Post 538686)
But you get child benefit from when the child is born does that mean you would lose out until the child was at school?!

No, you take the baby in to school and the dinner ladies will breast feed them for you :D

slinky 29-02-2008 21:54
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Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 538688)
No, you take the baby in to school and the dinner ladies will breast feed them for you :D
ROFLMAO ..... come on, don't be giving more tin pot ideas.


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