Kit Peacock

Amateur author, medical day job, 'insufferable' advocate for SEND and geographically underprivileged children. Blocks abusive or intolerably Stupid replies.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

Bibliography:
Hugo Likes Hugs
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Poetry That I Wrote When I Was Meant to be Doing Something Else
https://t.co/kKkbzPEA03

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@RoryMaw @THemingford I think all the borderline ones should be offered a week of paid work by the assessor to which they have to at least attend. That will distinguish most of the ones who are unemployable.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@RoryMaw @THemingford Temporary won't work on the chaotic though, was my point. Temporary may work on the temporarily unwell.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@RoryMaw @THemingford Yeah they aren't going on holiday. One I had to get local services involved in because he literally lost everything but the clothes he was wearing. Another was pulling his own teeth out because he couldn't get an NHS dentist. Life for the genuinely chaotic is not fun.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@ISC_schools Are you actually going to do anything about it?

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@bentleykarl @ISC_schools You got that backwards. I, average income single mum of a PS SEND kid, subsidise your schools where 90% of rich people go. You don't give my kid squat.

Even before VAT we subside you by billions a year.

If our kids move state guess what? Now you really do have to pay for them!

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@RoryMaw @THemingford I look after a number of chaotic people at work. Nobody would employ them because they're chaotic even though they look able bodied. If you stopped their benefits, they would just go commit crime to survive until they went back to jail.

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@ChiOnwurah If no child deserves to go to school hungry how come you only rolled this out to under 10% of children of whom more than half are affluent instead of to all kids on FSM?

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

That’s an extra £265,500,000* cost to state schools already.

Politics of envy always backfire.

* average cost of educating a state school pupil is £8,850 per year. x30,000

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@aj_inapi Less than a hundred years ago LGBTQAI people were being imprisoned, experimented on, lobotomised, tortured and executed in concentration camps and faced every kind of social stigma known to man. In some countries today this stuff still goes on.

You can deal with a flag.

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@Nesil_Caliskan @UKLabour Paid for by a tax on disabled children's education. Including mine, who lives in an area with house prices averaging ~60% of those in Barking.

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@roaring2047 @Nesil_Caliskan @UKLabour It's 60p...

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@RachelReevesMP If you'd done it by background you could have given it to the kids who actually need it.

Instead you left the majority of those kids hungry and gave freebies to the rich, paid for by a tax on the education of disabled children.

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@JeezSqueeze @bphillipsonMP @labourpress FSM would have been a better measure.

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@JeezSqueeze @bphillipsonMP @labourpress It's not universal because fewer than 10% of schools are in it.

I'm sorry but house prices are absolutely relevant. Poor people in council housing in poor areas with bad schools can't just move to a rich area with good schools. You need other privilege eg being born there.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@JeezSqueeze @bphillipsonMP @labourpress Even in your source that's less than half disadvantaged children.

Our constituency got 1 breakfast club. Kent, with a more than double average house price, has 29.

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@Liz_Wheeler Oh no, I hear you say, step parents and having a donor are completely different.

Sure they are. One is among stable parent/s, planned and wanted; the other is unplanned and often involves years of trauma and disruption experienced and witnessed by the child.

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@Liz_Wheeler Maybe the straight population would first like to address the fact that nearly half their children are not living with both parents by 18. Many of these children then being alienated from a parent and expected to accept step parents.

When will you be tackling that cruelty?

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@JeezSqueeze @bphillipsonMP @labourpress They're actually not mostly in the poorest areas, those areas can't afford to run the scheme on 60p per child per day. The initial trial schools were only about 1/3 in poor areas.

The local poor kids to me get nothing for the VAT I pay on my autistic child's schooling.

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@Kimbiggs16 @emmjcass25 @bphillipsonMP Reported to who? What are they supposed to provide for 60p per child?

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

@bphillipsonMP If that was equally distributed, that would be one breakfast per child.

As it is, it's daily breakfast for a tiny number of children, most of whom are not poor, paid for by a disability tax on SEND kids, and the majority of poor kids getting nothing.