CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Starve a kid to save a quid?

Deborah McMillan argues that governments have for too long tuned out to the issue of child poverty. Here, she makes the case for making a consolidated effort to eradicate the ‘cancer’ of poverty once and for all – before it is too late.

They say there is no better way to understand the value of something than by taking it away.

And it is hard to imagine a more striking example of this maxim than the debates over school meals that have been simmering away in recent weeks.

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