It's all about the money ..... money ..... money

Made the mistake of listening to the budget today. Glad to hear that we're all in it together. Thanks George. Or, according to Labour, we'd be an awful lot safer in the hands of Ed Balls. Who to believe?

According to Matthew Reed, Director of the Children's Society,
"The chancellor talks about us all being 'in it together', but the reality is strikingly different for hundreds of thousands of struggling families. With extra money available to the chancellor, it is hugely disappointing that the government has yet again failed to make extra funding available to protect children from sexual abuse and to create a register of missing children."

It's a shocking statistic that 140,000 children go missing in the UK each year.

It's all about the money. I'm not too worried about what Polaroid will do with my precious memories. I reckon they are hoping to sell them back to me in a variety of merchandising opportunities. They are, like most people, chasing the money.

So today I counted my blessings and my loose change. How on earth I have coinage from Sweden, Kenya, USA and a variety of pre-Euro countries I'll never know. Especially as I have only visited one of the coinage countries.

According to Barnado's;

There are currently 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. That’s almost a third of all children. 1.6 million of these children live in severe poverty . In the UK 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone is in regular paid work.

Three-year-olds in households with incomes below about £10,000 are 2.5 times more likely to suffer chronic illness than children in households with incomes above £52,000

Infant mortality is 10% higher for infants in the lower social group than the average.

Only 48% of 5 year olds entitled to free school meals have a good level of development at the end of their reception year, compared to 67% of all other pupils.

Families living in poverty can have as little as £12 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport.

1.6 million children are growing up in homes which are too cold.

For too many, it's about the money ..... or lack of it.