The pointless pain caused by austerity

The severe cuts to children’s services since 2010 reported by the five major children’s charities (Cuts plunge children’s services in England into crisis, charities warn, 26 February) are an indictment of this government and its predecessor’s austerity which no amount of evasive waffle by the minister for children and families can justify.Poverty and material deprivation are known to be detrimental to brain and physical development in early childhood, and the negative eff