Ms Susanne Rogers:

Looking at parenting supports is probably the key. Dr. Feely touched on the fact that high-income families can parent primarily in private. They do not have to go through these hoops. I do not want to confuse parenting while poor with poor parenting. They are generally very different things. This is really a case of providing community spaces and access to budgeting, nutritional, physical and mental health supports, as well as adult, digital and media literacy supports, and putting all of those things in place for the adult. To go back to Super Nanny, she always changed the parents' behaviour, never the child's. Maybe this is not actually a conversation about child poverty looking - I should not say this - at the child; it is about looking at the family and what family supports are needed. That runs the gamut. Until, as was said, a parent can feel secure that they are not going to lose their home because they use HAP, their income is going to cover seven dinners and they can pay for the school trip or the swimming, this is how it is going to be.