{"id":4418,"date":"2011-12-16T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T07:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2014-05-16T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:23:37","slug":"can-cameron-put-em-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/can-cameron-put-em-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Cameron Put ‘Em Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"Almost two hundred years after the birth of Charles Dickens<\/a> and the rich are still trying to blame the poor for their circumstances. Charities like Barnardos and The Children\u2019s Society broadly welcomed David Cameron\u2019s pledge<\/a> to help 120,000 of Britain\u2019s most \u201ctroubled families\u201d over the next three years, but with the proviso that the Government puts its money where its pursed-lipped mouth is.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\nThere is a lot of sense in some of what David Cameron proposes. A lot of families probably aren\u2019t getting enough help simply because too many different uncoordinated professionals are dipping in and out of their lives without getting to the cause of the problem. Equally, it probably isn\u2019t as simple as finding one person to \u201cgo through the front door\u201d and ensure that the \u201cbuilding blocks\u201d of normal family life are put into place. Mr Cameron cites getting children to school and ensuring that they are fed as examples of things that need to be tackled. Doh. It\u2019s very easy, and disingenuously distracting, to focus on the most chaotic families by invoking an Enid Blyton style \u201cjust pull your socks up and stop being so lazy and feckless\u201d attitude to poverty.\r\n\r\n(Does anyone else remember The Put Em Rights <\/a>where a band of hard-working posh children sorted out a Shameless style family by washing their curtains and bathing the children and putting wholesome food on the table?) And it may well work for those who really aren\u2019t coping with the basics, but it won\u2019t solve problems for the rest of us. Making the most chaotic families employable again won\u2019t find work for the \u00a32.7million who are currently employed, or help the one in three families who will get into debt this Christmas clear their credit cards. I would be far more keen to get behind David Cameron\u2019s plan if his policies hadn\u2019t already wiped out the funding for my local community centre, forced my children\u2019s after school service to double its fees and caused the school nursery to cut its provision in half.\r\n\r\nThat \u2018s the way to create chaotic families so if it carries on he can add mine to his list. I could do with someone to help get me up in the morning, ensure the children are dressed, had breakfast, cleaned their teeth, found their book bags and are ready to leave the house in an orderly crocodile by 8.40am.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost two hundred years after the birth of Charles Dickens and the rich are still trying to blame the poor for their circumstances. 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