That's why I said absolute poverty REAL poverty not relative poverty.
Fact of the matter is thaty the benifits underneath most people who would be classed as being under the poverty line however they got free school meals ( I don't remember anyone being stigmatised for that, I remember cadging the tickets and lads selling thier tickets to other people so that is a ludicris suggestion and probably only occurs in schools with high proportions of middle class), thier parents child allowance, child benifit or working familly tax credits or child tax credits, jsa, income support and whatever else is applicable whether in employment or not.
Also most kids from poorer backgrounds had more consoles and gadgets than I had and no one got stigmatised for not having an Ipod or new phone FFS mine was a 3 year old flip phone no one gave a [LIFTED].
Usually a child gets stigatised when all the benifits that should be for maintainence of a child go to the pub or other self serving means so the child has old clothes or is physically or psychologically abused so he can't function in social circles. Then they get stigmatised for everything they are missing just because kids get cruel. Fact is that people make most their own problems in this country by and large.
We should have a scheme whereby you work minumum wage on community efforts and internships subsidised by the Gov't after someone has been unemployed for longer than a year. So they can get referencing and used to working communities again and it also keeps thumbs from the devil.
