What Is This Council Playing At!!!!

[friedgreentomato]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280385/Jobless-mother-11-children-gets-council-build-SIX-BED-house-struggling-current-home.html

Building a new home for her - she should be made to get a job!

Your thoughts please

[naomi24]

Kids can't leave school until they're 18? Since when? What have I missed?

[cazzz1975]

its from 2013, a good idea as well. a lot of kids miss out on career opportunities by leaving too early.

[ummmm]

My 14 year old will be the first year that have to stay on. I think they can leave if they have full time employment, if not they have to stay (or college). I think it's very good because 14/15 year olds are a bit young to be making career choices.

[naomi24]

Really? How did I miss that? I'm amazed! So they can be married but they can't leave school. Mmmm....

[ummmm]

Still a good thing though.

[mallyh]

she should be sterilised before she has anymore .its disgraceful getting all that .

[cazzz1975]

she is sterilised mally..

[MadMen]

She can't have any more as she had cervical cancer!

[emmie]

wonder if any of her brood will follow in her footsteps, answers on a postcard..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6254833.stm

[emmie]

18 in school, or training, doesn't mean that some will want to though.

[zabado]

It's so wrong when lazy people take out of the pot when they have put bugger all in. . . .Yes. I am mad, bloody mad, she's nothing but a parasite a leech. A zit on the backside of Britain. Read and weep Ms Frost and hang your head in shame Tewkesbury council .

[mallyh]

sorry didn't read that part the newspaper article kept going off

[emmie]

zabado, yes i agree, those of us who worked all our days long, and got little to show for it in the long term, are still paying for people like her, and quite frankly i pisses me off no end.

[cazzz1975]

Im sure the leaving age changing will make a difference to some, having a supportive family helps as well.

[emmie]

that should be it not i, apologies...

[sp1814]

Haven't read the whole thread, but aren't we missing something important?

It's not as if the council are giving this woman the house. It will still be on the council's portfolio when her kids have grown up and left.

She will then be rehoused in a smaller property, leaving this valuable piece of real estate on the council's books.

[anotheoldgit]

I suppose she has to live somewhere, either that or take some of her 11 children into care.

According to the report the Council sold a plot of land to a housing association at a knock-down price, on condition that they built this house along with another 14 affordable houses, so that has also got to be good for another 14 families.

/// Tewkesbury Borough Council came up with a solution to her situation by selling a plot of land in Tewkesbury to Severn Vale Housing association for the knock-down price of £210,000. ///

/// The condition of the sale was that one of the 15 affordable homes they built on the site would be a six-bedroom home for Frost. ///

[ummmm]

Yes, SP and she'll also be freeing up two council houses.

[emmie]

and hell will freeze over before that happens. Her children are all young, first one born when she was just 14, there were ten more after that, so they aren't going anywhere for a long time to come.

[ummmm]

Does it matter when it happens?