Children living in poverty and families having to access charity as I have said has been exacerbated since the Pandemic, but it is the inevitable outcome of neocapitalism.
Unfettered capitalism without adequate checks and balances results in a grossly unequal society, such as we have now, with the rich getting richer, poor poorer.
There is a huge impact of gross social inequality with adverse health both mental and physical, and social. Poorer people are impacted in every area of their lives, education, jobs, life expectancy, and so much more.
What is so upsetting I think is that we accept seeing so many of our fellow citizens disadvantaged so unfairly, dependent on charity, and continue to elect governments intent on continuing the status quo, without the counterbalance of a fairer redistribution of tax, job support, and better public services and welfare provision, for starters.
Not just Tory policies either, but New Labour was keen on deregulation.