{"id":3190,"date":"2017-07-28T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:15","slug":"too-poor-to-afford-school-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/07\/28\/too-poor-to-afford-school-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Too poor to afford school holidays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This week the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trusselltrust.org\/2017\/07\/25\/half-children-helped-foodbanks-summer-holiday-months-primary-school-students\/\">Trussell Trust<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">They quote the statistics that\u00a0 67,506 three day emergency food supplies were provided for children by The Trussell Trust\u2019s foodbank network in July and August 2016 compared to 63,094 in May and June 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyandchildcaretrust.org\/holiday-childcare-survey-2017-blog\">Family and childcare trust holiday survey 2017<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> found costs had risen faster than wages at 4% since 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For overall statistics on family and household expenditure, use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/personalandhouseholdfinances\/expenditure\/bulletins\/familyspendingintheuk\/financialyearendingmarch2016\">ONS Family spending data<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> to find information on the proportion spent on food, leisure and holidays by average families in 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpag.org.uk\/child-poverty-facts-and-figures\">Child Poverty Action Group<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> has basic data on the general nature and extent of poverty in the UK. See the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endchildpoverty.org.uk\/poverty-in-your-area-2016\/\">map of local poverty in your area.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Trussell Trust published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies.\u00a0 They quote the statistics that\u00a0 67,506 three day emergency food supplies were provided for children by The Trussell Trust\u2019s foodbank network in July and August 2016 compared to 63,094 in May and June 2016. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,15],"tags":[121,93],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-finance","category-sociology","tag-child-poverty","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}