A survey of 600 people receiving social care found nearly 40% were failing to get enough help to ensure their basic needs, including eating properly, washing and dressing, were met.
"I have long believed where parents have fallen into damaging spirals of alcohol or drug addiction, or even problem debt, we need to find ways to safeguard them and their families and ensure their basic needs are met".
So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need, that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.
On prepaid cards, Duncan Smith said: "I have long believed that where parents have fallen into a damaging spiral – drug or alcohol addiction, even problem debt, or more – we need to find ways to safeguard them – and more importantly, their families, their children, ensuring their basic needs are met.
Mr Duncan Smith told the conference in Birmingham: "I have long believed that where parents have fallen into a damaging spiral - drug or alcohol addiction, even problem debt, or more - we need to find ways to safeguard them - and more importantly, their families, their children, ensuring their basic needs are met".
UNICEF works for and with children in 158 countries and territories, advocating for children's rights, ensuring their basic needs are met and enabling them to reach their full potential.
"Most indigenous peoples barely have resources to ensure their basic survival, much less to bring their cases to court.
"It is important to work with children in emergency situations, and to ensure that their basic needs are met and their emotional stability is restored.
UNICEF and the Save the Children Alliance are working with local partners and government bodies to ensure that their basic needs are being met as quickly as possible.
"It was her responsibility and hers alone to ensure that all their basic needs were met and that they lived a happy and fulfilled life and clearly she failed in that.
In their 80s their costs may rise again because of higher health-care bills or because they have moved to a nursing home.If workers are not required to use all of their pension pot to buy an annuity, it seems sensible to ensure they make provision for their basic needs.
