TEACHERS’ REPORTS
Increase in fatigue
Increase in illness
Increase in absence
Increase in anxiety
None of the above
Hungry pupils
Children without a uniform or uniform needing replacing
Children without correct school equipment
Children who are dirty or unwashed
Children who cover up details of home life
Children unable to join extracurricular activities
Children bullied because of family poverty
None of the above
Pupils arrive unwashed with no uniform and need to be fed before we can prepare them for lessons.
I strongly believe children’s mental 84.5% 63.57% 80.62% 83.72% 3.88% 2.34% 4.69% 3.13% 5.47% 3.13% 7.03% 10.16% 81.25% seeing children starting secondary struggling to write their own name, with a reading age equivalent to a child starting reception. Devastating.
Many of our children did not get a new Xmas present. When they have birthdays they are given pyjamas, do not have a party or even a cake. Food is an issue as the only meal they get a day is the school dinner. health suffers enormously because they cannot talk about their situation for fear it will reflect badly on their family and relationships at home.
Child has no table or desk and sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
One family had to move in with Dad who could not afford bedding and the children were cold. School provided duvets, bedding, inflatable mattresses, clothes and food.
On a home visit, I witnessed mould on the wall and in the children’s bedroom, including on their mattress. I alerted family support and the council pursued the landlord, who prevaricated and harassed the family who decided to move. So the children had to move school.
The whole family sleep in one room – that is also their lounge.
A child had to get up early to make breakfast for his carer dad, ill mother and three siblings. He was so worried about ensuring that other[s] got to eat, he went hungry every morning.
Children come into breakfast club who have possibly not eaten since free
It has increased
It has decreased
No change
Not sure
Hungry pupils
Children without uniform or uniform needing replacing
Children without correct school equipment
Children who are dirty or unwashed
Children who cover up details of home life
Children unable to join extracurricular activities
Children bullied because of family poverty
None of the above 10.08% 79.07% 83.72% 70.54% 58.91% 4.65%