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Originally Posted by Kizzy
The number of poor children going hungry during the school holidays is increasing to “heart-breaking” levels, teachers across the country have warned.
As many as four in five staff (80 per cent) reported a rise in “holiday hunger” over the past two years, with parents of children who qualify for free school meals (FSM) during term-time struggling to find the money to fund extra meals during school holidays.
In a survey led by the National Union of Teachers (NUT), 78 per cent of the 600 teachers polled said they recognised children arriving at school hungry.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ed...-a7687091.html |
That's probably more because of neglect that real poverty.