PRIVATE LAW GOVERNMENT POLICY LEAVES PARENTS IN POVERTY

[Alison J Stevens]

While David Cameron and the  Government target the disabled ,long term sick and unemployed,his current policy of charging Parents to use contact centers to see their children is leaving some alienated Parents in poverty.

How can it be right for a young Mother on JSA forced to bay up to £50 of her £67 a week to see her Daughter twice a week, leaving her peanuts to pay for food, electric and other personal items?

In another case a young Mother is forced to pay up to £500 a month to see her young children in a contact centre,that is without the traveling expenses to see her children as she has to travel 150 miles twice a week to a contact centre.

This poor mother works full time and is left with £50 out of her monthly salary left to pay for food.

The same is happening to many Fathers in Private Law cases as well, BUT BEING ON BENEFIT IS NO EXCUSE THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR CONTACT.