More than 400 applications. a similar number of people, but more families with young children. if you re a working family on a low income, or in the gig economy or you work part time, then your choices are really limited. we re a lifeline. without us, they would, you know, really struggle. for many families, tough times have got tougher, with no break from the rising costs over the summer holidays. elaine dunkley, bbc news, in birmingham. earlier i spoke to helen leadbitter, from the charity, the children s society. she told me what she would like to hear on the issue from the conservative leadership candidates. we have actually heard very little, if anything at all, from either of the candidates about the well being of children and young people in our society and the fact of the matter is that we now, a third of our
It is shocking, really, helen. words lose me. but many thanks for that insight and that reaction, helen. hopefully somebody in the government is listening tonight. helen leadbitter there. let s just bring you a new development coming to us from israel. we are now hearing that the palestinian group islamic ijihad has agreed to a truce with israel. israel reportedly agreed to that truce some time ago islamic jihad. this follows two days of violence which has been the worst we have seen between israel and gaza for a year now. militants fired rockets towards jerusalem today after a second commander was killed in an israeli air strike and what you have really is a tit for tat situation between gaza and israel there islamichhad were firing hundreds of rockets into israel, many of them destroyed by israel before they hit the ground, and then
Making decisions between eating or heating their house, for example. because we are talking about a lack of money available to councils right now because of cutbacks, but it shouldn tjust be down to councils to support the families you are talking about. surely they benefit system perhaps needs looking at, and child benefit in particular? yes. child benefit in particular? yes, indeed. what child benefit in particular? yes, indeed. what we child benefit in particular? yes, indeed. what we feel child benefit in particular? 1a: indeed. what we feel needs to be done is there needs to be strong support through the national welfare system. extending the free school meals, as i said, to all families in receipt of universal credit, and coming up with this plan in how to tackle this. and it shouldn t be around emergency support and we do need to be thinking about how we can enable families to be able to feed their children and to not be living on the edge of poverty or in poverty all the time. as we know, as we head towards winter and winter months it is only going to become harder with the cost of living crisis we in at the cost of living crisis we in at the moment. the cost of living crisis we in at the moment- the cost of living crisis we in at the moment. , , , .., the moment. helen, ust briefly, can ou cive