People's
🧒 Children
experiences
Dorothy T
12 May 2021 I'm quite lucky because I know you had moved on just two years ago so I have a large from garden with real ins and I have a good back garden with a swing set for my daughter and my son and the weather last year was brilliant...
🏢 Housing
💛 Health + disability
🧒 Children
Teddy W
28 January 2021 Parenting and lock time. This time has become really stressful...
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🤹 Parenting
🧒 Children
🏫 School
Georgie O
23 January 2021 Hi, how's my baby? Parenting been affected by covid my daughter's off at school for two weeks and that wasn't great and the score is now marked as vulnerable...
🤹 Parenting
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🧒 Children
Children's wellbeing
Meg T
08 November 2020 Hello that I have one school-age child at home now. So I received 21 pounds and five pence per week for him whether it's enough that is debatable because I think all children are worth the same value in terms of child benefit...
🗳 Benefits
🍳 Getting by
💸 Money + debt
🧒 Children
Meg T
08 November 2020 Hello, I have one school-age child at home now and I received 21 pounds of five pence per week for him. Whether it's enough that's debatable...
🗳 Benefits
🧒 Children
💸 Money + debt
🍳 Getting by
Angie K
30 July 2021 One year on from my Covid Realities birthday. I can be grateful for my family’s good health and my children’s promising development stages...
🧒 Children
🔙 2020 - looking back
Danni M
28 July 2021 I don’t but I really wish that I did.undefined...
🧒 Children
Florrie N
27 July 2021 My daughter is now 21 and at University but when she was at school , she got free school meals. They were a lifeline and we really struggled in the school holidays without them...
🍞 Food / food banks
🍳 Getting by
🧒 Children
🗳 Benefits
💸 Money + debt
Charlotte P
22 July 2021 So it’s that time of the year again when uniforms are to be bought. The place I need to get my daughters grammar uniform has a 20% sale on but only until the end of July and I simply don’t have the money for it so will have to pay full price...
💸 Money + debt
🧒 Children
🏫 School
Charlotte P
11 July 2021 So more information regards uniform. I understand the uniform bill has been modified in England but over in Northern Ireland it hasn’t and it’s very disappointing...
🍳 Getting by
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