Poverty
Food banks, homelessness, addiction, low education levels, crime … Poverty is the stem of so many issues – let’s build a future where no one is marginalised because of a lack of means. Photo by Jakob Grant.
Happiness hampers could help end child poverty in Teesside
A primary school teacher, and happiness motivational speaker says that her discrete, no shame hampers could reduce child poverty in the Tees Valley area. Saltburn-born altruist, Shonette Bason-Wood’s charity, Spreading the Happiness, donates to seven schools on...
Kids Eat Free in The Tees: Our Directory – Who, what, where and when?
Many across the region are stepping forward to offer free meals for children over the half-term break. A string of Tees Valley businesses are pulling together to feed vulnerable children this half term, offering a free meal, no questions asked, after the Government...
The truth about child poverty across the Tees
This week we saw the government vote against extending free school meals into the school holidays for children from the highest poverty families across the UK. As a country, since March, many families have faced hardship with the loss of jobs as we went into a...
Help Kids Eat Free in the Tees
Today the Tees Online is launching ‘Kids Eat Free in the Tees’We are encouraging restaurants across the Tees to offer free meals for children.The scheme comes on the back of Marcus Rashford's free holiday lunches campaign that was brought to an end by the government...
Childcare – The Gap in Gender Pay
Why women in the UK are earning less than men is not a straightforward issue to unpick. However, there’s widespread agreement that discriminatory practices and unequal pay are contributing to the problem... It has been illegal in the UK to pay a person less based on...
Teachers feeding and clothing pupils… it’s time to end child poverty
"We must work to ensure we tackle child poverty and ensure families in the Tees Valley thrive." Teachers in the Tees Valley are spending their own money on feeding, clothing and providing gas and electric for their pupils. Food and clothes banks in schools are now a...