Children deserve food, care and a home. This ought to be beyond dispute | Frances Ryan

We shouldn’t have to campaign against making people live in metal boxes and dig in bins for food. But we do

Imagine we’re building a country. Our hypothetical nation is a society like any other, made up of people – parents, nurses, pensioners and toddlers. It will need infrastructure, laws, services and taxes, and a set of values to guide us on how to arrange each of them.

Now imagine a whiteboard with bullet points of our first priorities. What’s the first that comes to mind? Hospitals? Schools? I propose one: to keep children safe. No matter what else we manage as a country, protecting kids from harm seems a simple place to start. After all, what kind of country can’t even manage that?

One eight-year-old boy resorted to chewing toilet paper to stave off hunger pangs. 'It makes my tummy pain go away.'

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