Frankie W

I think creativity is a really interesting point. When you look at how much of the creative industries are now sadly dominated by people with a privately educated background and even more so with a wider middle-class background fair access to culture and art has never been more important, something too often missing from the debate on poverty.

Too often poverty is focused on - heating, eating, travel costs and a roof over the head - but we all know that it is more encompassing that in reality. It's still an impoverished life if its one that can't afford the occasional holiday or access to the arts or sports - especially for households with children.

So we live in a world where we - rightly - laud businesses for offering 'kids eat free' especially during school holidays but we accept that the travel industry charges exorbitant rates as soon as term time ends or that theme parks no longer have children's rates for anyone but the under 5s and cheap Saturday morning cinema clubs that used to be the norm have all but gone.

It's also the case that we have to find ways of expanding access to extra-curricular arts via funded school trips and expanding what qualifies as after-school childcare (a drama class or music lessons with a private tutor on a school site should count but often won't for bureaucratic reasons).