A Damning Indictment !!!

This scumbag 'nasty party' are allowing children to go hungry, all due to their evil, appalling policies related to social security benefit entitlement and the failures of those policies.



Almost 2,500 children hospitalised with malnutrition this year, data shows

PA
Jul 12th 2020 12:04PM

More than 2,000 children have been admitted to hospital with malnutrition in the first six months of 2020, according to research by an MP.

There were 2,483 hospital admissions of under-16s due to malnourishment between January and June this year, according to Freedom of Information responses from nearly 50 hospital trusts in England.

Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Layla Moran, who collected the data, said she was “shocked” at the figures – which are equivalent to 103 hospitals admissions per week.

Some 11,515 children have been admitted to hospital with malnutrition since 2015, according to the research.

In this year alone, 915 cases have been logged at the Cambridge University Hospitals trust, while the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals trust reported 587 cases.

The Liverpool Women’s Hospital trust reported a case of malnutrition in pregnancy, while the Royal London Free trust and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals trust both recorded 656 cases in 2020.

Some 80 NHS trusts responded to the Freedom of Information request, while only 50 provided substantive information, according to the MP.

Commenting on the data, Ms Moran said: “Today, in the UK, thousands of friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues are at risk of the effects of malnutrition.

“These figures shocked me and make me angry that in Britain, in 2020, people can be hospitalised due to malnutrition.

“We need to move forward and create a system of social security that helps everyone and makes sure no one goes hungry in our country.

“The reasons for fixing this silent crisis are stark. Malnutrition and mortality are usually closely linked.

“Malnutrition lengthens hospital stays, reduces quality of life and increases the risk of developing other diseases.”

 

If parents can feed their kids in Poland, why is it the governments responsibility in the UK?

 

Because the bastards in the 'nasty party' are not paying enough in benefits to allow some sectors of the community to afford to live. Malnutrition in children is the result !!!

 

.....or, their parents are spending the money they should be spending on food on cigarettes, alcohol and lottery tickets


2000 kids out of a population of 56 million. Sounds about the number of kids of the worst dead beat meth head parents

If that figure was something like 50,000 id say ok, England has a problem involving legit single mums that cant get access to charity food parcels

2000 is just meth head parents

 

Yes, that's your disgusting take on it, instead of looking into the real problem - you are despicable specimen !!!

 

That would be the real problem, population of 56 million, we'd be talking 12 million kids under 16 roughly. 2000 of them would be 1 in 6000 kids

That kind of number screams junkie parents

 

Go crawl back in your jungle and leave us 'civilised' societies alone !!!