In my last article, we looked at the growing incidence of poverty, and the challenges that students caught in the trap experience – and the very real scars that it can leave (Talking about child poverty, SecEd, September 2018).
Despite teachers and other staff often helping out students suffering from deprivation – with food, the occasional hand-out or loan, clothing and even tampons – these types of short-term actions are unsustainable. No school has a budget for this, either, and with funding cuts digging deeper, there is little prospect that there will be spare money to help even the neediest of children.
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