Teachers have always gone above and beyond to support the children in their care and, with the cost-of-living crisis, schools are at the forefront of the UK’s slide into deepening poverty.
Now that all UK kids are back in classrooms after the summer break, hundreds of schools are running food-banks so children have enough to eat. Teachers are giving up personal time, food from their own cupboards and money out of the school’s budget to feed the poorest families. As many as one in five UK schools reportedly set up foodbanks when they were forced to close during the pandemic, according to research from Kellogg’s. And demand hasn’t ceased.
“Schools are on the frontline of the cost-of-living crisis,” says Dr Will Baker,
