Deborah Charlesworth

Big disappointment. The few I have watched are all 'families', they have children. This means, here in the UK, they have guaranteed incomes both in work and out. They also have housing rights, even if means sitting on your arse for a few years in temporary accommodation until the taxpayer finds you a house/flat. These families all have a guaranteed minimum standard of living on the backs of the children. How they choose to spend this is up to them, yet none are made to take any responsibility for how they spend their 'privileged' handouts, they are just portrayed as poor and not feckless. The real poverty in the UK is with the childless, who only get what they can earn themselves, no guaranteed income, no housing rights, constantly cut off benefits and no TV programmes generating societies sympathy for them. If you want to portray 'skint' try looking there.