Tory welfare cuts will impoverish 200,000 children next year and more than 600,00 in 2020

Meanwhile the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign is to launch an initiative to encourage young people to persuade their grandparents to vote to stay in the EU.

Really?

Bullying and scaremongering didn't worry him, or any of the Tories, during the Scottish referendum.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/04/iain-duncan-smith-damns-bullying-and-threats-of-anti-brexit-campaign

One good thing to come out of the EU referendum?

Or is he just using it as an excuse to give up as he realises he is in a cleft stick as far as DWP reforms are concerned?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-35585961

Is anyone else related to a Tory minister?

www.welfareweekly.com/victory-campaigners-welcome-dwp-u-turn-over-publising-child-poverty-statistics/

The government overturned the Lords on this, and now IDS says he will publish statistics that we want. What is he doing? Does he not understand anything?

I bet IDS will not watch it, though.
I'm sure he'll have his excuses ready, just like Cameron did yesterday when an MP asked him if he would sort out the fact that one of his constituents was supposed to live on nothing.
This government disgusts me, as do those who support anything like this.

I can't bear to think of the circumstances of some families Jen. Thank you for the link - it is an excellent video.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/feb/24/i-live-in-real-poverty-and-its-not-what-you-think-video

Yesterday the government overturned the Lords amendment on poverty.
The government wants to exclude any mention of pay in the meaning of poverty.
This could be why.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/18/hardworking-britain-dying-benefits-dwp-atos

This isn't about a child, but her mother had to fill in her assessment forms because the daughter could not cope with it any more.
The daighter has been turned down for PIP because she is well turned out, even though she is in end stage renal failure.

IDS himself needs to be out, not just out of the EU.

Thanks for that, Granddaughter. Here's another link.

ukcampaign4change.com/2016/02/18/dwp-in-court-next-week-to-stop-universal-credit-reports-being-published/

The DWP wants to stop reports being published on universal credits, just like the NHS risk register.
I just hope they do not win.

durhamjen : Yes,thank you. I was impressed with many of your comments, but I was annoyed at the attitudes and personal attacks by individuals in the early threads. some of those individuals seem to nit pick all the time, its is not necessary to be so rude and offensive.

Thank you for your links.

Have you read all the pages, Granddaughter?

Gracesgran, well said. Far too many grans seem to desire to attack those who have a more compassionate view.

No doubt somebody will react to these comments of support for your very informative views.

Did anyone see Michael Sheen on the One Show tonight, talking about the petition on teenagers in Wales not being put in B&B accommodation?
It was excellent and shows that signing petitions online can do some good.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-cuts-leave-millions-poverty-7372542

It's strange how Iain Duncan Smith is always under the radar no matter how much he messes up. He's more teflon coated than Tony Blair.

www.politics.co.uk/news/2016/02/12/government-welfare-bill-will-hit-vulnerable-children-hardest

An all party parliamentary group has said that the welfare bill cuts will still affect the same people. They will lose money when their circumstances change and are moved onto universal credit.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-quietly-end-free-school-7334298

samedifference1.com/2016/02/02/decision-maker-tells-mother-her-daughters-terminal-organ-failure-is-your-opinion/

This is sick. It's time IDS was removed from his post so someone with some sort of sensitivity could take over.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/boy-battling-leukaemia-fed-foodbanks-5068514

The Lords has overturned the government's wish to remove any mention of money in the definition of child poverty.
I know the Lords is an anachronism, but thank heavens for them.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-loses-vote-to-keep-child-poverty-numbers-secret-a6833156.html

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/12/new-parents-lose-hundreds-pounds-year-tax-credits-birth-first-child

Anyone who makes a new claim from next April will be put onto universal credit and lose out. Osborne is doing his cuts despite being beaten by the Lords.
He's despicable.

That's appalling whitewave.

They sound like perfect people for assisted living. Why are they special needs?

Are you going to start the thread?

In Wales we had two two rehab centres, one in Wrexham and one in Shrewsbury , Shrewsbury has closed down because of the cuts, so one for the country

What I also wanted to say was how much this must be costing the NHS?

We ought to start a thread of the consequences of Osborne austerity now beginning to really bite.
An example -

A neighbour who lived with his mother until her death is special needs as is his wife. Since his mothers death he has become alcoholic and is now seriously ill.

Social services are unable to provide sufficient help due to cuts and as a result he is taken in and our of hospital dozens of times oner the past year. They are unable to feed themselves properly - in fact his wife recently needed assistance to be shown how to open a tin of beans.

It is so sad and in more civilised times they would have been in care.