Editor

I find it most upsetting to read that one in five children are short of food, and the rise of child cruelty is troubling. I hope the government is taking note of this.

I grew up in the 1960s, in a family of 11. My aunt took tome, which must have helped my mother, but she made sure my siblings were well fed, with doorstep sandwiches filling her brood.

We are in the 20th century, and it seems that situations can be more likened to Dickens’ times, when the poor suffered greatly.

If the government are furloughing the workers, surely they must look after the children. There is, I’m sure, a link between children being short of food and child cruelty.Let’s hope the government see this too.

The thought of little ones going short of food fills me with tears, and with child cruelty up also, this is unbearable. Society needs to get its priorities right or we will all suffer.

Jean Miles Harlech

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