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    “Sono un insegnante, c’è una crisi di povertà infantile e la situazione non può che peggiorare”

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    1. BirminghamLive on

      The primary school teacher explained how not only has she has begun “spotting it more,” but the children themselves also appear to be witnessing the crisis. She added: “Some teachers provide apples and fruit for snacks at break, but that’s out of their own money.”

      The teacher explained how those who typically have access to free school lunches are able to take it on a trip too, but those who do not receive them, yet have the “minimal” in their lunch boxes end up needing their meals also “topped up.”

      She said: “Those children who don’t have access to free school meals, what I’ve had to do in the past is top up their lunch with some of the spare free school meals.”

      “You notice things,” she went on, “They’ll just have a minimal amount in their lunch boxes, so they’re the first ones finished. It’s quite sad.”

    2. pajamakitten on

      Left teaching in 2017 and I was already providing breakfast for a few kids. The parents could not afford breakfast club and that also charged for food. Nearly a decade later and it will only have got a lot worse. Nothing has been to actually tackle the root causes, the system has got harsher, and the economy has only got worse. Schools are fighting a losing battle, despite effectively acting as charities to provide food, clothing, bedding etc. for families. Some schools even operate washing facilities so kids can have clean clothes.

      It is easy to say “Do not have kids you cannot afford!” but that does not take into account changes to personal circumstances, nor does it help kids who are born into poverty (should they just be left to suffer?). How we help future generations says a lot about us as a society and a lot of people have consistently voted to do nothing to help child poverty because they want to punish parents.

    3. Top-Significance8791 on

      The problem is we as a society are so focused on the short term that long term thinking has gone out of the window.

      All children should receive free school meals. We should be investing in our next generation.

    4. Tomatoflee on

      Let’s give another hundred billion to Jeff Bezos though.

    5. Everyones_Dead_Dave on

      Don’t worry though the child benefit cap removal will fix it…

    6. Charming_Parking_302 on

      My mum just retired from teaching after 35 years. She always complained about dropping standards. Kids used to get filling school dinners, there were plenty of books and even teaching assistants to support slower students. By the time she left education was paying for school books, snacks and even pencils out of her own pocket for the kids. Parenting standards also fell. It used to be shameful to send your kid to school unable to hold a fork or not potty trained. Now its normal.

    7. MuthaChucka69 on

      Estimates say it would only cost 2.5 billion to provide free school lunches for up to 16’s. If it really is that cheap just do it, i don’t have kids and i would support it.

    8. parallax3900 on

      And yet – the newspapers foamed at the mouth when Reeves removed the 2 child limit to help this exact issue.

      We seem to have this bizarre widespread idea in this UK that the country is better off if our taxes go towards wealthy people who never need it, rather than hungry kids who desperately need it.

    9. Realistic_Alps_90 on

      Hey gotta keep our pensioners triple locked and billionaires thriving 🙂

    10. Dangerous_Towel_2569 on

      and yet people still cry that the 2 child benefit cap, and not giving free school meals to all children is just because of some boogey-man benefit fraud

    11. Uhtred_of_nothing on

      Theres always been a child poverty crisis.

      In the 80/90s it was council estate kids in particular rural ones that got left well behind and forgotten about so were just left at the mercy of ‘behind closed doors’ on the estates. Some of us were so poor our headteacher in primary school used to find and give away football boots away for free because none of us could afford them and there were no initiatives to help…outside of child support that depending on the parent mostly went on themselves.

      This will quickly be forgotten about just like the Torie MPs article saying they have failed a generation of young poor working class boys.

      Same shit crops up every few years or so. People wring their hands and say its time for action yet nothing changes because those in power on either side want it that way.

    12. -NiMa- on

      Not just child poverty. Majority of people in the UK are heading to poverty.

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