[BB_Eye]

I watched the show on iPlayer today and it's made me rethink some of my feelings about the benefits for families with children.

Even though I know a few low-income single parents from work, I've never gotten to see that sort of life first-hand so I've often naively taken it for granted that as long as you have the child benefit and child tax credit with your rent paid for you, you'd be okay, but in actual fact, it's really not a lot of money and if you're unluckly enough to be the unfortunate souls who occupy those decrepid tower blocks, it must feel like living in Eastern Europe. I really hope we can soon build more council properties so such families won't have to deal with so many awful private landlords.

As it happens, those kids are wonderful and really count their blessings. Amazing how hardship makes people grow up so quickly.