See James Kirkup on the Free School Meals debate– ‘Feed the children but help their parents too.’ tinyurl.com/yyoqubue He broadens the debate to consider how the Gov’t can best deal with the root causes of child poverty by supporting parents’ relationships with their children.

My letter (w/Samantha Callan) responding to Kirkup article below: tinyurl.com/yxurhxvv ‘Without more effective parenting’ schools carry an ‘unrealistic burden’ to support underprivileged children. The Gov't must act to ‘fulfil its manifesto commitment to champion Family Hubs.’

Bill Gates in UK promoting GlobalCitizen: gener'n must ensure aid spent in best way, ditto gov't/society must tackle CAUSES of #childpoverty

Me on why gov't has to grab this opportunity to amend the cp act to reflect causes of child poverty and drive action blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/20…

Important in Sunday Times from veteran Frank Field: what parents do with their children is more important than income thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/re…

#Whatworks4couples @TCCRcouples I claim the hashtag prize, unless Samantha Callan can do better,which she jolly well might.

Sir Tom Winsor The Centre for Social Justice giving major speech on how CJ system can help most vulnerable: lots of implemented CSJ recommendations mentiond

People in mental health crisis no longer held in police cells under S136 of MHA as recommended in The Centre for Social Justice Completing the Revolution

Must treat DV as major child protection issue 1 in 4 children seeing it in their homes & even if not victims r more likely to repeat cycle

In police practice with vulnerable 'Accumulated kindnesses cost nothing' according to HMI Dru Sharpling speaking at The Centre for Social Justice #tomwinsor

In police practice with vulnerable 'Accumulated kindnesses cost nothing' according to HMI Dru Sharpling spking at The Centre for Social Justice #CSJPolicing

At Children's Commissioner for England launch of care leavers report 'I was left to my own devices'...'I could cook & clean but had no idea how to pay my bills'

With Children's Commissioner for England - young people are leaving care and the books are closed on LA support before they have learned the ropes of adult life

With Children's Commissioner for England - care leavers saying 'If I was given the tools before moving out of care I would've been less dependent on the state'

With Children's Commissioner for England re care leavers: huge difference between help you get from foster carer cf personal adviser: I was left 2 my own devices

We are delighted that Christian Guy will have the opportunity to tackle the root causes of poverty from heart of govt at 10 Downing Street

Letter in @telegraph signed by CSJ's Samantha Callan -why Govt shd treble funding for relationship support services: telegraph.co.uk/comment/letter…

Important @baronessjenkin points in HOL 2day about @ShirleyConran work on many women's fear of maths: will make money/pensions hard 2 fathom

Strong & stable families produce wealth: every gov't dept shd bring fwd plans to cut £235bn cost of family breakdown thetimes.co.uk/redbox/topic/t…

Powerful & thoughtful @AndrewSelous - sounds like an ex-Minister poised to contribute v positively from backbenches conservativehome.com/platform/2016/…