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SCHOOL staff feel under pressure to feed children who attend classes without having eaten breakfast or receiving any dinner money, a GMB study has found.
Of the 4,600 school support staff surveyed, 8 per cent felt they had to spend their own money on food for hungry pupils.
GMB national officer Karen Leonard said: “It beggars belief that in one of the richest countries in the world not only are kids coming into school starving – but this government is cutting free school dinners at the same time.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK