The Education Anti-Poverty Coalition survey of 1,023 professionals working in schools in England, organised by the Child Poverty Action Group, reveals:
A primary teaching assistant in Yorkshire and the Humber said, ‘Children can’t do homework online as they don’t have devices at home. Often they don’t even have pencils, coloured pencils or other resources to do homework at home.’
Another primary teaching assistant in the South-East commented, ‘Children [are] coming to school hungry not having [had] breakfast and we have to feed them which takes us away from our normal routine… also children coming to school in the wrong/too small clothes. [We’re] having to find clothes.’
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