More than three-quarters of primary school teachers are spending their own money on basic food and clothing for their pupils, new research warns. The figure reduces to 62% in secondary schools, according to a new report...
Four in 10 teachers warn children are ‘too hungry’ to learn
More than a third of teachers have said pupils in their classes are too hungry to learn, jumping to 63% in deprived areas, a new survey has found. A study of 10,000 teachers by School Food Matters and Teacher Tapp has...
UK free school meal allowances too low for healthy lunches, study finds
Free school meal allowances are not enough for students from lower-income backgrounds to buy healthy school lunches, research suggests. The study, presented at the European Congress of Obesity (ECO), involved 42 pupils...
Children of austerity need a rescue plan, Gordon Brown says
Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for “austerity’s children” – a generation of more than 3 million UK young people born after 2010 from low-income families who “have never known what it is like to be free of...
Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis
The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis. Read the full story...
Disadvantaged children set to miss out on early years expansion, NAO warns
The National Audit Office (NAO) has raised concerns that the government’s extension of early years entitlement for working families will widen the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers. Read the...
