Child starved to death after benefits delay

[Astro1]

The government has been warned it must urgently fix flaws in its support system for successful asylum seekers, after a destitute child starved to death in temporary accommodation in Westminster.

 

Further tragedies are increasingly likely as more asylum claims are processed while support funding dries up, organisations claim.

Details of the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of ‘child EG’ and the unrelated death of his mother ‘Mrs G’ surfaced in a serious case review and a letter sent to the government by child safety experts at Westminster Council, a flagship Conservative borough.

The case review found that the family had become dependent on ‘ad hoc’ charitable handouts despite a successful asylum claim because of ‘significant problems’ transferring the family from Home Office to mainstream welfare support services.

 

Source: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/care/child-starved-to-death-after-benefits-delay/6524052.article

 

 

Very sad.

 

A bit more: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk//6524061.article

Edited October 8, 2012 by Astro1
Edited to add more information.

[honeybee13]

That's a very sad story, poor people.

 

HB

[Conniff]

Very sad but typical one sided reporting.

[abc123def]

That's abysmal. Shocking :/

[sadone]

Very sad but typical one sided reporting.

 

 

What like then government doesn't do that?? I mean seriously is that all you can take from that?? Give me strength...

[Conniff]

I have not mentioned the government - it is the reporting that is one sided as I said and you quoted.

[sadone]

No, I mentioned them, and as I say after reading all that is that all you took from it? Jesus.

[assisted blonde]

There is somthing missing in this story it dosnt give enough facts to base an opinion. If the mothers death was unrelated did she die before the child and was the child therefore left alone? or did she die at a later date and if so you would have thought that any mother would have fed her child before herself? Just seems a very confused story.

[tonycee]

This is really sad, but lets keep it in context.

 

Are their not enough problems with our own people starving to death?

 

We could always pay 90 per cent tax and try feeding the whole of the rest of the world.

 

Why not, they are all coming here anyway.

[locutus]

I would suggest to anyone thinking that reporting in the UK gives "the facts" remember the Dowlers, and how the press accused them of killing their own daughter, after it was the press tampering with evidence that pointed the finger in that direction in the first place. It was just luck that the actual (serial) killer was caught before he murdered a 4th victim!

 

The "inside housing" website that this incident was posted on does seem very biased toward slamming the government over dealing with any actual housing issues.

[Bang!]

I have no idea if this is true. However, the ?170? foodbanks set up in the UK in the last year smacks of Dickensian workhouse politics. If someone able bodied needs to get food this way, its better than starving, but not indicative of a perceived elgalitarian democracy. What if the hungry punter is disabled but found by ATOS to leap tall buildings in a single bound & stop speeding trains etc, yet cannot make a trip over/out of town to a foodbank? Some senior bible thumper from ?Hull? a few years ago had suggested those starving awaiting benefits should shoplift from rich stores, and with Sainsbury's donating to the tories (albeit hacked off with Gideon's recent spoutings) I know where I would be heading if I was a weak person ensconced in that sitch. Had the scenario been verbatim, there's always going to be some toaster (euphemism) claims the cost of preventing death is too high. But then they are probably just worried their benefits might be reduced to accommodate, as no normal/working/decent person could value life so low.

[Conniff]

There was an article on tv a week or so ago about food banks. This poor couple in there getting some handouts and them putting it in the boot of their nice shiny car and driving off home.

[woody1066]

There was an article on tv a week or so ago about food banks. This poor couple in there getting some handouts and them putting it in the boot of their nice shiny car and driving off home.

 

Yeah everyone who uses foodbanks have new cars.

 

And you talk about 1 sided reporting!!!

[Conniff]

Yeah everyone who uses foodbanks have new cars.

 

And you talk about 1 sided reporting!!!

 

Wow, I didn't know it was 'everyone' I thought it was just this one couple, gosh, learn something new every day. Mind I don't think I said anything about it being new.

[Nystagmite]

There was an article on tv a week or so ago about food banks. This poor couple in there getting some handouts and them putting it in the boot of their nice shiny car and driving off home.

 

And? It's possible their car is from the Motability scheme or they got the car a year or two ago when they could afford it.

[woody1066]

The dual standard ignorance on here is breathtaking. I sometimes visit food banks as part of my job and let me tell you that the vast majority of the people who rely on them do not have cars. I find it deeply disturbing that in the 21st century some of the most disadvantaged people are having to rely on handouts to survive and then to be demonised by certain ignorant groups for having to do so, to be a sad indictment of the moral compass of certain groups and individuals both on this forum and in government.

[determindator]

They say there's no money but those lotteries still keep churning out millions to individuals. What is this world coming too.