Poverty, disadvantage and education in coastal schools
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  • Apr 14, 2022
New evidence on the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect
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  • Mar 29, 2022
Serious risk ‘levelling up’ will make lives of disadvantaged children even tougher
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  • Mar 25, 2022
Parents choosing between paying for food and childcare as providers forced to raise fees
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Childcare Nursery fees Poverty
  • Mar 25, 2022
Chancellor snubs schools as 500,000 children ‘fall into poverty’
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Spring statement School funding Poverty
  • Mar 25, 2022
Boris Johnson warned ‘a hungry child can’t learn’ as 500,000 children set to fall below poverty line
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  • Mar 24, 2022
Children exposed to poverty and trauma more likely to offend as adults
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  • Mar 9, 2022
Interview: Peter Matejic, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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  • Mar 1, 2022
Parents can’t afford to take children to school and pupils are embarrassed to say they’re hungry, head warns
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  • Feb 10, 2022
Addressing poverty means financial education in primary schools
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  • Feb 2, 2022
Joseph Rowntree Foundation on energy bills and poverty
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  • Jan 18, 2022
Teachers concerned by increase in poverty which has made 300,000 more pupils eligible for free school meals
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  • Jan 18, 2022
Student ‘faked poverty’ to win place at Oxford University
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  • Jan 14, 2022
The buzz subjects that could fix the pupil poverty gap
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  • Dec 24, 2021
The impact of travel poverty on education
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  • Dec 8, 2021
ASCL comment on UCL research into how schools are ‘propping up a failing welfare state’
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Poverty Covid impact Education outcomes
  • Oct 14, 2021
Covid 'has exposed the impact of poverty on schools'
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  • Oct 14, 2021
Poverty is not inevitable: What can your school do about it?
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Poverty Life chances Inequality
  • Sep 28, 2021
High cost of childcare drives families to use food banks
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  • Sep 15, 2021
Barack Obama praises Marcus Rashford in Zoom meeting
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  • May 28, 2021
The fault line in our society
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  • May 8, 2021
Coronavirus Scotland: Student poverty fears as foodbank use jumps
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  • Mar 2, 2021
Catch-up threatened by poverty, ministers told
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Poverty not ethnicity the reason for underperformance of working-class white students, says minister
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  • Feb 10, 2021
Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty
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  • Feb 4, 2021
Kids write school homework on toilet paper and go without pens as desperate parents struggle for food
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  • Jan 27, 2021
Children write homework on toilet paper as parents choose between books and food
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  • Jan 27, 2021
Poor pupils doing remote school work on toilet roll
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  • Jan 26, 2021
Lack of food makes home schooling harder, say one in five struggling families
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  • Jan 12, 2021
Kids in poverty facing third lockdown without laptops a national scandal
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  • Jan 5, 2021
Online schooling: Calls to cut data fees during Covid lockdowns
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  • Jan 5, 2021
The Guardian view: please support our 2020 Christmas appeal
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  • Dec 22, 2020
From surviving to thriving: how advice given to parents inside schools can transform lives
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  • Dec 20, 2020
Focus on the root causes of obesity says BPS in response to the latest child obesity figures
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  • Nov 2, 2020
How prolonged hunger impacts a child
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  • Oct 28, 2020
Feed the children but help their parents too | James Kirkup
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  • Oct 27, 2020
How can schools educate isolating children if families can't afford wifi? | Laura McInerney
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  • Oct 20, 2020
Poverty: How colleges can help tackle inequality
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  • Oct 5, 2020
Families 'too poor' to wash school uniforms daily to fight coronavirus, doctor warns
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  • Sep 2, 2020
Mind the gap: why Blackpool pupils are two years behind
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  • Aug 29, 2020
Poorer children's education could take over a year to recover
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  • Aug 22, 2020
Child poverty - slipping through the net
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  • Jul 28, 2020
How can we prevent child malnutrition over the summer?
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  • Jul 14, 2020
Summer statement: Chancellor ‘missed opportunity’ to tackle child poverty and early years crisis as employment scheme praised
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  • Jul 8, 2020
Food insecurity
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  • Jul 3, 2020
We must finally confront and defeat childhood poverty
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  • Jun 29, 2020
Students estranged from their families could end up destitute this summer | Becca Bland
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  • Jun 19, 2020
Increase child benefit to help pay for home learning
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  • Jun 18, 2020
Man Utd star Marcus Rashford says Boris Johnson school meals U-turn is just the start
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  • Jun 18, 2020
Memories of being hungry as a child have driven Marcus Rashford to deliver school meals campaign
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  • Jun 18, 2020
Home and school-based learning must be poverty-proofed, says charity
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  • Jun 18, 2020
Keir Starmer refuses to say he backs schools re-opening amid row with Boris Johnson on child poverty
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Two million still face holiday hunger risk despite FSM summer extension
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Marcus Rashford's FSM victory must create real change
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Marcus Rashford seeks more change after food voucher win
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  • Jun 17, 2020
The education divide
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Supporting children at risk of hunger over the holidays should not be a one-off intervention
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Marcus Rashford’s joy after forcing Boris Johnson into U-turn on free summer school meals for struggling families
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  • Jun 17, 2020
Marcus Rashford wins battle for poorest pupils to keep free school meals
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  • Jun 17, 2020
How Marcus Rashford forced Boris Johnson to U-turn on free school meals
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Free meals U-turn will still leave many children to go hungry
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Boris Johnson ‘congratulates’ Marcus Rashford after footballer forces U-turn on free school meal funding
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Free school meals for children and young people
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  • Jun 16, 2020
The Guardian view on Marcus Rashford's triumph: a political masterclass
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Boris thanks Marcus Rashford for causing government U-turn on free school meals
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Robert Halfon: Boris the Bold has scored a winning goal for millions by listening to Rashford’s heroic free school meals plea
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Huge victory for Marcus Rashford as Boris Johnson u-turns over free school meals for summer in boost for poor families
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  • Jun 16, 2020
More than free school meals U-turn needed to curb child poverty
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Boris’s own MPs demand free school meal U-turn for ‘those who need it most’ after Rashford’s impassioned pleas
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  • Jun 16, 2020
No child to go hungry #FSMPlus200
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Footballer's campaign prompts government U-turn on free school meals
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  • Jun 16, 2020
The other reason the government U-turned on free school meals
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Rashford thanks MPs for giving families less to worry about after meals U-turn
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Marcus Rashford wins free school meals for kids over summer in massive Tory U-turn
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Boris Johnson U-turns on free school meals and extends scheme into summer
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Marcus Rashford reacts to Tory U-turn on free school meals for kids over summer
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Children to get free meals this summer in Tory U-turn after Marcus Rashford campaign
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Marcus Rashford scores! Summer free school meals announced for 1.3m students
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  • Jun 16, 2020
A generation of children are relying on Boris Johnson to stop them from going hungry
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Boris Johnson makes U-turn on free school meals through summer after Marcus Rashford plea
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Minister in row over response to Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Marcus Rashford: Ending child poverty is a bigger trophy than any in football
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Families fear being 'left with zero' if school meal scheme ends
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  • Jun 15, 2020
Coronavirus: Child poverty predicted to rise warns social mobility watchdog
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  • Jun 10, 2020
IPPR on rise in child poverty
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  • Jun 4, 2020
How a botched government food voucher scheme left English pupils hungry in a pandemic
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  • Jun 2, 2020
Schools turn to philanthropists for laptops as wait for DfE devices continues
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  • May 24, 2020
Thousands of vulnerable Scots families don’t have equipment for online learning
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  • May 24, 2020
Over 60% of teachers are ‘happy to work’ over summer holidays to help struggling pupils, research finds
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  • May 24, 2020
Mary Bousted: Time for a government U-turn over shocking child poverty levels
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  • May 23, 2020
Coronavirus: Perilous future for children stuck in the poverty trap
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  • May 20, 2020
Call for free school meals during half-term and summer in England
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  • May 15, 2020
Headteacher puts £5,000 on his credit card to get free meal vouchers to kids in lockdown
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  • May 6, 2020
Key findings from the latest ONS data on impact of Covid-19
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  • May 4, 2020
Coronavirus: Almost a fifth of UK homes with children going hungry during lockdown
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  • May 3, 2020
Thousands more children relying on foodbanks amid pandemic, charities warn
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  • May 1, 2020
'Digital poverty' in schools where few have laptops
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  • Apr 24, 2020
Schools give emergency food to families with nothing to eat
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  • Apr 21, 2020
UK's poorest families suffering as free school meal vouchers delayed
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  • Apr 9, 2020
DfE 'should extend free schools meals scheme' as settings set to open over Easter
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  • Apr 1, 2020
Child poverty hits 4.2 million amid coronavirus impact fear
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  • Apr 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Supply teachers facing poverty
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  • Mar 18, 2020
‘Plans are in place’ for free school meals in event of coronavirus closures
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Johnson's school meal 'plan' under fire
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Johnson: Plans 'ready to go' to help with meals if schools are ordered to close
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus: ‘We have a plan for free school meals’, claims Johnson
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  • Mar 17, 2020
If schools close we must ensure children on free school meals do not go hungry
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Heads demand answers over how to feed poorer pupils if schools close
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Heads want DfE plan to feed poorer pupils
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  • Mar 16, 2020
Our kids are being left behind by poverty and miss out on warm clothes and trips
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  • Mar 5, 2020
Children’s health: ‘painful facts we cannot ignore’
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  • Mar 4, 2020
Living in poverty 'increases risk of childhood trauma'
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  • Feb 25, 2020
NFER comments on health equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 years on
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  • Feb 25, 2020
Students to be given leftover food for free
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Colleges Poverty Sustainability
  • Feb 20, 2020
More children of working parents living in poverty
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  • Feb 10, 2020
Number of children in poverty risen by 400,000 in last five years
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  • Feb 7, 2020
Scottish Budget: Teacher pay, child poverty, nurseries
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  • Feb 6, 2020
School kids take over Borough Market and cook up waste food to highlight food poverty
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  • Feb 3, 2020
Poverty index hides some pupils who need help most
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  • Jan 31, 2020
Scheme to 'poverty proof' school rolls out across UK
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  • Jan 28, 2020
Child poverty: If you can’t afford it you just sit there on your own
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  • Jan 28, 2020
Drive to close the gap could hit child poverty targets
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  • Jan 15, 2020
The poverty gaps persist
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  • Jan 15, 2020
Black pupils’ charity will now help white children
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  • Jan 5, 2020
Poor white boys are failed by schools once more
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  • Jan 5, 2020
Tens of thousands more pupils will be given free breakfasts in £12million grant to help poorer families
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  • Jan 3, 2020
IFS wins Royal Statistical Society 'Stat of the Year' award
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Poverty Inequality
  • Dec 20, 2019
Thousands of Christmas dinners at West Lothian schools
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  • Dec 17, 2019
‘Many of our children don’t get presents’: schools open over Christmas for families with nothing
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  • Dec 17, 2019
Teachers' heartbreak as pupil poverty overshadows Christmas
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Poverty Christmas
  • Dec 15, 2019
General election result: Sector calls for 'urgent' investment in early years and an end to child poverty
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  • Dec 13, 2019
Teachers warn of bleak Christmas for many families
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  • Dec 11, 2019
Child poverty poll
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  • Dec 11, 2019
More pupils will go hungry at Christmas, teachers warn
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Christmas Poverty Holiday hunger
  • Dec 11, 2019
Teachers fear more children will be cold and hungry this Christmas
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Poverty Holiday hunger Christmas
  • Dec 11, 2019
School where brutal cuts leave staff feeding hungry kids and buying them shoes
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  • Dec 10, 2019
Charity warns of a ‘Christmas crisis’ for a million children
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Poverty
  • Dec 6, 2019
One in 10 children 'cold and hungry at Christmas'
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Poverty
  • Dec 6, 2019
The future of skills and employability: how to unleash opportunity and free workers who are trapped in poverty
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  • Dec 6, 2019
Labour pledges free school breakfasts in primary schools to tackle poverty
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  • Dec 5, 2019
Labour vows to give free breakfasts to a million schoolchildren to end hunger scourge
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  • Dec 5, 2019
Free breakfasts to form part of Labour plan to 'poverty-proof' schools
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  • Dec 4, 2019
Teacher cries after pupils arrive at school shivering in blazer with wet feet
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  • Dec 1, 2019
SNP failing to get results in closure of school poverty gap
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  • Dec 1, 2019
General election: British Youth Council urges parties to tackle child poverty and improve mental health support
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  • Nov 27, 2019
Teachers seeing increased evidence of child poverty in the classroom
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  • Nov 26, 2019
General election: Child poverty could reach 60-year high under Conservatives, report warns
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  • Nov 26, 2019
General election 2019: Child poverty 'will rise' under Conservative plans
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  • Nov 26, 2019
The schools and teachers providing a lifeline to Britain’s poorest families — and how you can help
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Charity Poverty
  • Nov 24, 2019
Teachers report sharp increase in child poverty
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  • Nov 23, 2019
EEF partners with The Sunday Times Christmas appeal to support schools serving disadvantaged families
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  • Nov 23, 2019
NEU members poll on child poverty
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Poverty Survey
  • Nov 23, 2019
Priti Patel condemned for claiming the Government should not be blamed for poverty
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Poverty
  • Nov 21, 2019
Labour pledges on poverty
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  • Nov 19, 2019
Children coming to school so poor teachers have to give them money to eat, says headteacher
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  • Nov 18, 2019
Teachers buying coats to stop pupils shivering in class
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  • Nov 13, 2019
Corbyn: 'Teachers are plugging gaps left by cruel cuts'
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  • Nov 12, 2019
Corbyn: Teachers having to buy ‘uniforms and mattresses’ for pupils
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  • Nov 12, 2019
Teachers share stark truth about kids coming to school with no coats in winter
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  • Nov 11, 2019
Can boarding schools really improve the life chances of disadvantaged children?
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  • Nov 10, 2019
Poorer pupils learn to benefit from Classics
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  • Nov 9, 2019
How the people of Rochdale launched their own fightback against sexual abuse and poverty
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  • Oct 29, 2019
Quarter of primary pupils miss their free school meals
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  • Oct 25, 2019
Primary schools install stocked fridges to feed hungry pupils with free food
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Primary schools Disadvantaged pupils Hunger Poverty
  • Oct 19, 2019
Primary schools give free food to hungry families
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  • Oct 19, 2019
Almost all 10-year-olds in world's poorest countries struggle to read
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Poverty Reading Global
  • Oct 18, 2019
Teachers to tackle poverty with help of new scheme
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Poverty Unions Disadvantaged pupils
  • Oct 16, 2019
Teachers living in sheds, cars and using food banks as demand for grants rises, charity warns
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Teachers' pay Poverty Grants
  • Oct 13, 2019
Scotland: Gordon Brown says thousands of children are joining army of poor
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  • Oct 11, 2019
The 2019 Income Deprivation Children Index
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  • Sep 26, 2019
Children are lashing out at pupils and staff because they are hungry, teachers say
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Behaviour Poverty Hunger
  • Sep 24, 2019
Unicef to tackle child obesity and poverty in Scotland
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Obesity Poverty UNICEF
  • Sep 23, 2019
Childcare practitioners 'living in poverty' - exclusive survey
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  • Sep 13, 2019
Child poverty: Radical action needed, say experts
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  • Sep 11, 2019
Children living in poverty badly hampered at schools - report
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  • Sep 4, 2019
Children without bed of their own or enough clothing struggle at school, report warns
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Poverty Attainment Disadvantaged pupils
  • Sep 3, 2019
Food banks increasing in schools for pupils' families
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  • Sep 3, 2019
BBC Panorama features the school that's been stripped to the bone
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  • Sep 2, 2019
New toolkit to support early learning for children in poverty
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  • Aug 29, 2019
Parents skip meals to ensure children are fed in summer holidays, MPs say
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Holiday hunger Disadvantaged Poverty
  • Jul 31, 2019
Gavin Williamson urged to stop pupils from going hungry
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Holiday hunger Poverty Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jul 31, 2019
Cash-strapped parents go starving so kids can eat during summer holidays
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Disadvantaged Holiday hunger Poverty School holiday poverty
  • Jul 30, 2019
Schools forced to feed 50,000 hungry children during summer holidays
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Holiday hunger Disadvantaged pupils Poverty
  • Jul 30, 2019
EU funding for child poverty going unspent, peers warn
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EU funding Poverty
  • Jul 29, 2019
'Holiday hunger' fears of food bank charity in Wales
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Wales Holiday hunger Disadvantaged pupils Poverty
  • Jul 16, 2019
Parents shouldn’t be forking out from their own pockets to help fund schools
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PTAs Parents School funding State schools Poverty Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jul 14, 2019
Revealed: how wealthy parents widen cash gap between state schools
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  • Jul 14, 2019
Tale of two schools: ‘We’re paying for a mother to bring her child to school out of PTA funds – and from my pocket’
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PTAs Parents Disadvantaged pupils Poverty State schools School funding
  • Jul 14, 2019
Genetic study aims to help poor, bright children succeed
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Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Wellcome Trust
  • Jul 14, 2019
‘Elitist’ school uniforms driving holiday poverty
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School uniforms Elitism Disadvantaged pupils Finances Poverty
  • Jul 3, 2019
Families on universal credit falling into debt in school holidays
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School holiday poverty Childcare Disadvantaged Poverty
  • Jul 3, 2019
Persistent poverty affects one in five UK children
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Poverty Disadvantaged Mental health Health Education outcomes
  • Jun 12, 2019
‘It’s just ridiculous’: why a London school is seeking charity help
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Primary Funding Disadvantaged Poverty Charities Fundraising
  • Jun 12, 2019
School responsibilities around school food: a letter to schools
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Nadhim Zahawi Free school meals Austerity Disadvantaged pupils Poverty
  • Jun 7, 2019
Minister 'shocked' after poorer pupils forced to buy bottles of water at school
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Disadvantaged pupils Free school meals Austerity Poverty
  • Jun 7, 2019
Minister's shock over schools not providing free water
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Free school meals Austerity Disadvantaged pupils Poverty
  • Jun 7, 2019
One in nine pupils arrives at school hungry, poll finds
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Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Hunger Pupil performance Attainment
  • Jun 7, 2019
Tackling child poverty is key for success in education
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  • Jun 6, 2019
London council launches free school meals pilot scheme
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  • Jun 5, 2019
Four million children are in shoe poverty in the UK
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  • Jun 1, 2019
Poverty funding helping to narrow attainment gap in schools, Scottish heads say
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  • May 30, 2019
Poverty funding helps shrink attainment gap, heads say
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  • May 30, 2019
Birmingham nursery schools feeding and clothing children
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  • May 28, 2019
'Nearly half' of UK children in poverty by 2021, UN expert warns
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  • May 22, 2019
'Nearly half' of UK children in poverty by 2021, UN expert warns
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  • May 22, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur on poverty in the UK
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  • May 22, 2019
Government accused of refusing to acknowledge extent of UK poverty
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  • May 22, 2019
Headteachers' fury of having to feed and dress pupils with some arriving at school hungry
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  • May 21, 2019
'A national shame': headteachers voice anger about pupils' hunger
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  • May 20, 2019
Britain's shame as teachers have to turn to foodbanks to feed hungry school kids
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  • May 16, 2019
Child poverty becoming the 'new normal', campaigners warn
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  • May 15, 2019
In some areas of the UK, more than 60 per cent of children live in poverty
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  • May 15, 2019
Child poverty the 'new normal', warn charities
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  • May 15, 2019
The government is using a sticking plaster on child poverty. Major surgery is needed
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  • May 9, 2019
Schools asked for loans by poverty-stricken parents
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  • May 8, 2019
Great Yarmouth school a 'fourth emergency service'
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  • May 7, 2019
Poor pupils 'unable to learn' after years of austerity
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  • May 4, 2019
Children are struggling to learn as result of hunger and parents' financial issues, headteachers warn
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  • May 4, 2019
More parents asking schools for financial help, say heads
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  • May 4, 2019
As an inner-city teacher, I see the appalling reality of child poverty after 10 years of austerity
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  • May 4, 2019
Head warns schools are 'building food banks' for hungry pupils
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  • May 2, 2019
The blame for knife crime lies with austerity
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  • May 2, 2019
Free school meals were my lifeline. Now children depend on food banks | Lord Bassam
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  • May 1, 2019
Call for watchdog to develop policies to improve childhood nutrition
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  • Apr 26, 2019
‘You feel sick, exhausted’: Why children in extreme poverty are being denied free school meals
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  • Apr 25, 2019
I used to be against school uniform until one pupil changed my mind
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  • Apr 24, 2019
Emma Thompson: my fight to end Easter holiday hunger for 4m British schoolchildren
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  • Apr 21, 2019
Some school children ‘go without eating for two days’ as child poverty increases, teachers warn
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  • Apr 15, 2019
The state of education: Child poverty
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Pupils `have not eaten for two days´, teachers report
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Poverty NEU
  • Apr 14, 2019
'Teachers are using foodbanks - education needs more money'
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NEU Poverty Cuts School funding
  • Apr 14, 2019
Tired, hungry and shamed: pupil poverty ‘stops learning’
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Shocking and disturbing impact of poverty on children and young people #NEU19
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Poverty having 'parlous' impact on pupil's learning, NEU survey finds
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Poverty-hit pupils so ashamed of worn-out clothes and lack of equipment they skip school, teachers say
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Teachers are spending their own cash on food and clothes for poverty-hit pupils
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Worsening child poverty harms learning, say teachers
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  • Apr 14, 2019
Child poverty having a 'detrimental effect' on pupils' learning and behaviour
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  • Apr 14, 2019
MPs demand Government review its 'disrespectful' response to universal credit report
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  • Apr 11, 2019
Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link
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  • Apr 10, 2019
Why UK child poverty targets won’t be met
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  • Apr 9, 2019
Demand for donated uniforms spikes as 'two million school pupils hit by poverty'
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  • Apr 7, 2019
Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link
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  • Apr 5, 2019
Breaking the link? Attainment, poverty and rural schools
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  • Apr 5, 2019
Quarter of children from low-income families 'go hungry'
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Children growing up in poverty endure hunger and shame, research finds
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Children in poverty suffer hunger and stigma, finds new research
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More than half of poor children in the UK are under five
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  • Mar 28, 2019
Growing up with gangs, poverty and knife crime (podcast)
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  • Mar 18, 2019
ASCL survey reveals rising tide of pupil poverty
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Teacher reveals pupils are 'freezing, starving and have holes in their shoes'
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Schools now a 'fourth emergency service' for poor pupils
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  • Mar 15, 2019
The stories I hear of pupil poverty are getting worse
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  • Mar 15, 2019
'Pupil poverty' pressure on school cash
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  • Mar 15, 2019
'Half of senior schools forced to wash poor pupils' clothing' according to a study
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Schools have become 'fourth emergency service' for poorest families
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Half of headteachers claim to have done laundry for pupils, survey finds
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Schools wash clothes for deprived pupils
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Schools are providing clothes to pupils in poverty, shocking study reveals
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Children arrive at school with holes in shoes and feel they have to work to get food, headteachers warn
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  • Mar 14, 2019
Scotland: Council told to improve impact of cash for closing attainment gap
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  • Mar 12, 2019
Scotland: The schools where poverty is no longer an excuse
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  • Mar 12, 2019
We don’t need to tackle knife crime — we need to tackle poverty | Dame Louise Casey
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Wales: Fury as school turns off free water forcing kids to buy expensive bottled drinks
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  • Mar 5, 2019
Award-winning teacher among staff needing charity to scrape by
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Teachers' pay Poverty
  • Mar 5, 2019
We must eradicate childhood hunger: here's how we do it
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Scotland: The schools using pizza and cake to tackle the poverty gap
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  • Feb 19, 2019
‘Naïve’ Hinds told 2019 is not ‘best-time ever to be young’
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Funding Poverty Exams Mental health
  • Feb 4, 2019
Scotland: Glasgow's landmark ‘town and gown’ deal to tackle poverty
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  • Feb 4, 2019
Cuts and Brexit uncertainty putting children's health at risk
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Analysis shows impact of poverty and ethnicity in inspections
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  • Jan 11, 2019
Malnourished children are taking food from school bins to stifle hunger, headteacher says
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  • Jan 11, 2019
Hunger minister needed to address food insecurity, say MPs
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  • Jan 10, 2019
MPs want hunger minister role introduced
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Government should appoint a minister for hunger to tackle growing crisis, MPs say
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Union-led project aiming to tackle impact of child poverty in schools
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  • Jan 3, 2019
Schools to be offered training on poverty impact
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  • Jan 2, 2019
Schools to be offered training on poverty impact
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  • Jan 2, 2019
Schools open to feed the poor and lonely on Christmas Day
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Poverty Free school meals Deprived areas
  • Dec 24, 2018
Scottish teaching union warns the pressures of the festive period make it a particularly difficult time for children in poverty
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  • Dec 24, 2018
Primary school to stay open on Christmas Day to serve hot meals to families in need
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  • Dec 24, 2018
School holiday poverty
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  • Dec 21, 2018
Teachers buying food and topping up gas meters for poorest pupils
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Gap widens for poor 5-year-olds in half of England
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Shivering schoolchildren pictured huddled around electric heater in icy classroom
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Poorer children in half of areas across England falling further behind peers for communication skills
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Disadvantaged pupils Communication Poverty
  • Dec 18, 2018
NEU survey: Teachers witnessing distressing new levels of child poverty this winter in schools
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Growing numbers of pupils going hungry, say teachers
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  • Dec 17, 2018
'We are buying them coats on a scale never seen before': teachers share 'Dickensian' instances of child poverty
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Poverty as bad as Charles Dickens era as hungry kids go without winter coats and sleep in uniform
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  • Dec 17, 2018
More children will go hungry this Christmas, say teachers
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Teachers ‘buy pupils winter coats’ as union claim ‘Dickensian’ poverty shames UK
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Many pupils in England hungry and badly clothed, say teachers
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Teachers' poll highlights rise in child poverty
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Teachers witnessing 'distressing' new levels of child poverty in schools this winter
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  • Dec 17, 2018
Lords debates challenges facing young people
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Employment Employability Poverty Disadvantaged Mental health
  • Dec 13, 2018
Don’t diss private schools over Oxbridge entries
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Poorest pupils 'being failed badly’
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Planning ahead for summer
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Young highly sceptical of social mobility
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Only one in seven young people think they have best chance of social mobility, survey finds
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  • Dec 11, 2018
New DfE research shows 'lasting negative impact' on attainment of children in need
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  • Dec 10, 2018
Cutting tuition fees could hurt poorer students, claims social mobility tsar
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  • Dec 9, 2018
Social mobility tsar warns cuts to tuition fees may not help poorest students
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  • Dec 9, 2018
Teachers are having to fund clothes, shoes and travel costs for pupils in need
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Amanda Spielman Poverty Primary schools Parents Funding Teachers
  • Dec 7, 2018
Child poverty: One million under-10s 'face desperate Christmas'
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  • Dec 6, 2018
More children of working families falling into poverty
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  • Dec 6, 2018
Scotland: children facing ‘Dickensian levels of poverty’
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  • Dec 6, 2018
Scots tax cut to match Philip Hammond pledge would cost £1bn
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Gap widens for poorer pupils at age 5
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  • Nov 29, 2018
How can it be that so many children depend on foodbanks?
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  • Nov 29, 2018
The poverty stats aren't numbers – they're children
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Scotland: Give cash to poorest families in school holidays, urges Poverty and Inequality Commission
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  • Nov 27, 2018
Schools with poorest pupils will struggle to pay teachers
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  • Nov 22, 2018
UN warning over UK's hungry school children
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  • Nov 16, 2018
Why schools are right to ban pupils from wearing designer coats
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  • Nov 16, 2018
Schools forced to collect food for hungry pupils, warns UN adviser
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  • Nov 16, 2018
Head teacher in Birkenhead bans designer coats from Moncler and Canada Goose to spare poorer children
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  • Nov 16, 2018
Geoff Barton: More and more schools are battling grinding pupil poverty
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Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Progress 8 Accountability Geoff Barton ASCL
  • Nov 15, 2018
School bans designer coats to stop ‘poverty shaming’
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Expensive designer coats ban at Merseyside school
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Alarming report on the health of school children – archive, 30 October 1911
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Poorest families struggling to afford school uniform in Scotland
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  • Oct 29, 2018
Poor pupils fall two years behind
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  • Oct 24, 2018
Pupils surrounded by poverty falling two years behind
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  • Oct 24, 2018
Stop seeing poor children as ‘tragic’, campaign says
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  • Oct 11, 2018
'Schools cannot fix the impact of poverty alone'
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  • Oct 4, 2018
Children are so hungry at schools teachers are taking extra food for them
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  • Oct 2, 2018
‘Decisive steps’ needed to tackle child poverty
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  • Oct 2, 2018
School teachers are buying food for hungry pupils, shocking survey reveals
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  • Oct 1, 2018
Foreign Secretary hosts first Platform for Girls' Education meeting
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Subject squeeze hitting poorer pupils hardest
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  • Sep 26, 2018
Global: World leaders warn failure to educate girls will cause 'catastrophes'
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  • Sep 25, 2018
Ireland: Free sanitary products to end ‘period poverty’
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Sanitary protection Disadvantaged Poverty
  • Sep 21, 2018
There are 4.5 million children living in poverty according to new proposed independent measure
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Schools washing uniforms and offering food to families in need, governors say
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  • Sep 18, 2018
Pupil poverty among 5 key school governor concerns
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  • Sep 18, 2018
Ireland: Tackling poverty ‘only way to close attainment gap’
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Poverty Attainment ERC
  • Sep 17, 2018
Fulbright Commission must do more to attract poor students, universities minister says
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Hinds backs under-fire Ofsted, and 5 other things we learned at education questions
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  • Sep 10, 2018
USA: The comeback kids: how a struggling public school made the grade
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  • Sep 6, 2018
Healthy diet unaffordable for 3.7 million children, study finds
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  • Sep 5, 2018
NASUWT comments on the Programme for Government
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  • Sep 4, 2018
‘Flawed policy’ excludes Shetland’s poorest
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Clearing University places Scotland Disadvantaged students Poverty
  • Aug 30, 2018
John Swinney: Boys’ Brigade helps Scotland be best place in world for kids
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Class acts from across the globe – in pictures
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  • Aug 28, 2018
Holiday hunger: 150% rise in pupils in need
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  • Aug 15, 2018
The man who is fervent about feeding hungry kids, but hates food banks | Aditya Chakrabortty
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Citizenship fee causes schools to miss out on pupil premium cash
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  • Aug 7, 2018
Working families 'losing hundreds' under Universal Credit
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  • Aug 6, 2018
'They hadn’t eaten all day': food banks tackle holiday hunger
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  • Aug 3, 2018
Food banks appeal for help to feed children during school holidays
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  • Aug 3, 2018
Increase in the amount of teenagers going hungry during the summer holidays
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  • Aug 1, 2018
6 out of 10 teachers say holiday hunger getting worse
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  • Aug 1, 2018
Wales; Mothers describe what it's like when you can't feed your children through the summer holidays
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  • Jul 25, 2018
‘Holiday hunger should be the shame of this government and it isn’t’ | Dawn Foster
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  • Jul 25, 2018
Child poverty in the UK rising faster than thought, study shows
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  • Jul 24, 2018
A history lesson wouldn’t hurt when it comes to child poverty | Torsten Bell
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  • Jul 24, 2018
Colleges run food banks to tackle student poverty
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  • Jul 20, 2018
Bright but poor pupils lose out at GCSE
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GCSEs Sutton Trust Poverty
  • Jul 19, 2018
MSPs shocked by poor and hungry Scottish pupils
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Professor Christopher Chapman: Community can play a huge part in tackling child poverty
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  • Jul 4, 2018
Poorest pupils miss out on language lessons
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  • Jun 29, 2018
"Kids are going to school in the rain without a coat": How charity is helping UK's poorest kids
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  • Jun 27, 2018
There are good reasons why poor British children struggle in school | Barbara Ellen
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  • Jun 24, 2018
Teachers provide soap and toothpaste for poor pupils
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  • Jun 19, 2018
Teachers are having to buy toiletries for pupils. And they say it's getting worse
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  • Jun 19, 2018
Primary school children affected by hygiene poverty, charity finds
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  • Jun 19, 2018
The 365,000 children living in destitution across the UK
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  • Jun 13, 2018
Schools with more poor students less likely to have qualified staff
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  • Jun 11, 2018
Summer holidays ‘lead to increase in child poverty’ in Scotland
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  • Jun 8, 2018
More than 350,000 children 'destitute', study finds
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Poverty Disadvantaged Homelessness
  • Jun 7, 2018
To help poor white pupils, target the parents
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  • May 31, 2018
Scotland: Row as pupil poverty cash 'earmarked for swimming'
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  • May 23, 2018
What teachers should know about pupils in poverty
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  • May 15, 2018
Headteachers turn to charities as families sleep by bins
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Charities Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Homelessness
  • May 15, 2018
As a pupil, I was not ‘poverty-proof’. At least give children their dignity | Dawn Foster
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  • May 14, 2018
Scotland: Do not punish pupils over dirty uniforms, say parents
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  • May 12, 2018
Teachers told not to ask classroom of children what they did at the weekend
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Poverty Disadvantaged pupils Equality
  • May 11, 2018
School bans pencil cases to stop poor pupils being bullied for not having them
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  • May 11, 2018
School pencil cases banned to stop 'stigma'
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Poverty Disadvantaged pupils Social inequality
  • May 11, 2018
Poor, white pupils need more help at home
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Poverty Parents Justine Greening
  • May 6, 2018
The reality of poverty - pupils who have never seen the sea, visited a farm, or had a picnic
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  • May 3, 2018
Poverty makes Scots parents feel like ‘outcasts’
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Poverty Disadvantaged pupils Attainment gap Technology Scotland
  • May 2, 2018
Daily roundup 2 May: DCS departure, cot deaths, recruitment problems
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  • May 2, 2018
Food, clothes, a mattress and three funerals. What teachers buy for children
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  • May 1, 2018
Child poverty rise set to raise pressure on overstretched social services, research finds
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  • Apr 30, 2018
Ensure students have the money to live
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  • Apr 23, 2018
Students should receive minimum living income to overcome poverty, says report
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  • Apr 23, 2018
#ClassDismissed NUS Poverty Commission report - Sectorresponse
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  • Apr 23, 2018
'Education transformed my life - everyone deserves that chance'
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  • Apr 23, 2018
NUS calls for ‘minimum living income’ for post-16 students
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  • Apr 23, 2018
Be prepared: Scouts offer to help pupils through summer holidays
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  • Apr 23, 2018
‘Cut school summer holidays’ to help families cope
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  • Apr 23, 2018
NUS: 'Working-class students face poverty'
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  • Apr 23, 2018
The Tes podcast: Gibb quizzed on funding, hungry pupils and exclusions
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  • Apr 20, 2018
'Children’s heads can’t be filled if their stomachs are empty'
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Poorest pupils face postcode lottery over exam results
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Analysis: There is clear evidence growing up in poverty undermines attainment
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Schools to share in over £90m to help disadvantaged learners
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Anne Longfield profile: ‘I would really love a dialogue with teachers about the issues they’re facing’
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Teachers 'routinely giving pupils food and clothes' as frontline services under strain
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Bullied, bereaved and poor – would I have succeeded today?
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Teachers have sounded the alarm – it’s time to listen | Dawn Foster
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British school children ‘showing growing signs of poverty’, head teachers warn
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Malnourished children with grey skin are filling their pockets with food to survive in poor areas say head teachers
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National Education Conference told of 'malnourished, grey-looking children' turning up to school
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Schools are at the sharp end of rising child poverty
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Children stuff food into their pockets and turn up to school in dirty uniforms
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Teachers warn they are having to feed and clothe children in deprived areas
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Teachers highlight poverty issues for many pupils
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Child poverty: Pale and hungry pupils 'fill pockets with school food'
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Teachers warn of growing poverty crisis in British schools
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Nine in ten teachers say poverty is having 'significant effect' on pupils' learning
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Ireland: Pupils with special needs are more likely to be poor
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Teachers wash clothes of poor pupils
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Elaine Smith: The SNP has failed to tackle child poverty for a decade
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Study 'explodes myth' that poor families have lower ambitions for their children
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Pupils in the north of England are 'being left behind' by those in the south
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Global: Mary´s Meals now feeding 1.25 million children every school day
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Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns
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Northern children ‘being left behind’ – Children’s Commissioner
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Northern schools blast RSCs in children’s commissioner report
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Children in northern England being hit by 'double whammy' of poverty and failing schools, warns report
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Northern children 'too often left behind', says commissioner
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Children in north 'face double whammy' of poverty and bad schools
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Children's commissioner: Northern pupils face double whammy of 'poor' schools and deprivation
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'Phonics is the last thing on Andrew's mind – he is more concerned with worrying about when he will next get fed'
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Schools are 'spending anti-poverty money on Astroturf pitches and staff bonuses'
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Child poverty hits highest level in decade
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The number of children in poverty rises to 4.1 million
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DfE to ask heads and pupils about 'period poverty'
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  • Mar 20, 2018
How Progress 8 might just be a proxy measure for poverty and EAL
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Period poverty campaigners attack 'superficial' DfE research
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Teacher recruitment problems hit efforts to close Scotland's attainment gap
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  • Mar 16, 2018
Scotland: Schools in wealthier areas dominate top of the league
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Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
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Girls using toilet roll because they ‘can’t afford’ tampons, pads
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Tories just voted to cut children's free school meal eligibility in move that 'could deprive a million kids'
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  • Mar 13, 2018
Free school meal changes 'pull the rug' from under poor families, says Labour
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Stepping up: learning ‘what works’ to progress low paid workers
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Daily roundup 13 March: Celibacy, poverty, and age checks
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Could you cope with eight different jobs a week?
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Teachers are buying food for hungry Scots pupils, warns charity
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Poor pupils in Scotland half as likely to attend university compared with wealthier peers
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  • Feb 27, 2018
Daily roundup 23 February: Child poverty, Presidents Club and FGM trial
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Disadvantaged children need a break – not a system stacked against them | Frances Ryan
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  • Feb 22, 2018
Leader: University tuition fees and the common good
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Scotland: Council approves free school meals every day of the year
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Long read: Meet the UK's contender for the million-dollar Global Teacher Prize
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Secret Teacher: I'm faced with the realities of child poverty every day
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'One in seven children of school staff and other public sector workers face poverty'
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  • Jan 31, 2018
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End Child Poverty coalition: new child poverty figures
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Daily roundup 24 January: Child poverty, caesareans, and abuse inquiry
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Homeless children on the increase in Scotland, new figures show
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Government pledges pilot projects to tackle holiday hunger
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More than half of children 'living in poverty in some parts of UK'
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Most children in UK's poorest areas now growing up in poverty
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More than half of children living in poverty in parts of the UK
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Generous donations from strangers to help our most vulnerable pupils.
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  • Jan 20, 2018
Daily roundup 19 January: Aspiration, child migrants, and poverty
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Government launches scheme to tackle 'holiday hunger'
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Holiday hunger: Government promises research and pilot projects
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  • Jan 19, 2018
The devastating effect poverty is having on young children's education in Wales
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Not only do our most deprived pupils have an opportunity deficit, they have a deficit of beauty in their lives
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'It's like family to me': the school feeding its poorest families
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Students against period poverty: why young activists are seeing red
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The shame of period poverty is keeping British girls out of school. Let’s break the silence | Amika George
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More pupils in rural areas receiving free school meals, research reveals
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Children in poverty will miss out on free school meals under universal credit
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Morecambe MP stirs row after doubting poverty claims by local schools
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Leadership groups focus on improving lives affected by poverty in Scotland
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Greening wants social mobility to 'unlock talent'
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Schools are washing poor pupils clothes and taking parents to food banks
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The poorest in society experience school as it it were educational apartheid
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Major report says areas provide young people with thriving education institutions and good jobs
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Study reveals gulf in social mobility between councils
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Councils 'should produce local strategies' to boost life chances
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Children from UK’s most disadvantaged areas ‘being left behind economically and socially’
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The worst places in Wales to grow up poor (and the best)
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Social Mobility Commission warns UK is in a 'spiral of division'
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  • Nov 28, 2017
A decade of success as Glasgow state schools ditch the poverty excuse
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Analysis: Tackling stark impact of poverty on exam results is the single biggest challenge in Scottish education
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  • Nov 27, 2017
The Chancellor has bought some time on Universal Credit – but the problems are still just beginning
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  • Nov 23, 2017
Girls are missing days of school because they can't afford a tampon: Teenager urges the Government to start talking about periods for a change
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  • Nov 22, 2017
Bigger share of aid budget for education, say MPs
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Increase the share of overseas aid spent on education, demand MPs
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The failure to educate a child anywhere in the world risks instability for us all
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017
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Teenage girls in Wales are missing school when they have their period 'because they can't afford sanitary products'
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  • Oct 18, 2017
Expecting schools to stump up cash for sanitary pads is 'harsh', Greening told
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  • Oct 12, 2017
Making the difference: Breaking the link between school exclusion and social exclusion
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New charity aims to reduce link between school exclusion and social exclusion
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UCU at TUC Congress 2017
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Government's record on child poverty a disgrace
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Trade unions must fight back against scapegoating of immigrants, Sally Hunt tells TUC
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Free schools meals measure masks north south divide in pupil poverty
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Schools are ‘ideal places’ to provide holiday meals for poorer pupils
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  • Aug 30, 2017
‘Massive’ student poverty commission launched by NUS
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Wales takes bite out of children’s holiday hunger | Sarah Marsh
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  • Aug 30, 2017
High-profile Tories back Labour bill on free meals in school holidays
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  • Aug 30, 2017
MPs call for new law to tackle holiday hunger among pupils
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  • Aug 30, 2017
We know how to close the attainment gap – but government and schools must commit to it
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Child poverty 'beginning to look like a state of emergency'
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NASUWT comments on EPI 'Closing the Gap' report
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Long-term disadvantage, part three: Ethnicity, EAL and long-term disadvantage
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  • Jul 28, 2017
I know what it’s like to spend school holidays hungry. So do today’s kids | Dawn Foster
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  • Jul 27, 2017
A quarter of children using food banks over summer are under five
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  • Jul 26, 2017
Food banks are the only place some children eat a good meal in the holidays | Julie Coates
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  • Jul 25, 2017
The young children who can't afford to eat - the scale of the problem facing broke families
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  • Jul 25, 2017
Scottish schools in poorest areas to get £45m
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  • Jul 24, 2017
For some kids school holidays mean hunger and isolation
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Half of permanently excluded pupils have a mental illness, report finds
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  • Jul 20, 2017
Fall in income inequality since recession most pronounced in London; but large income gaps between regions
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  • Jul 19, 2017
Pupils' hungriness in holidays big human rights issue, says children's commissioner
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  • Jul 16, 2017
Teachers in poorer areas should get subsidised housing, MPs recommend
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  • Jul 14, 2017
The neuroscience of inequality: does poverty show up in children's brains?
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Household income impacts on children's prospects, report finds
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Household income plays crucial role in determining a child's prospects – report
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Scottish teachers ‘using own money’ to help poor pupils
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Teachers buying food for Scotland’s pupils living in poverty
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Scotland: Schools survey points to poverty blight for pupils
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Poverty blights school for 'alarming' number of children, union warns
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Global: Nearly half of the world’s poor are now children – that’s 689m young people
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  • Jul 4, 2017
Eisenstadt report: Middle class told to be proud if children get an apprenticeship
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  • Jul 4, 2017
NASUWT comments on the creation of the Poverty and Inequality Commission
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  • Jul 3, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon underminded by her own poverty tsar over university inequality
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  • Jul 3, 2017
Children's commissioner wants 'dialogue with teachers' about children's welfare
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  • Jun 29, 2017
'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap
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  • Jun 28, 2017
ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Social mobility
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain
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  • Jun 28, 2017
'No prospect' of GCSE gap between rich and poor closing, warns damning report
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Daily roundup 22 June: Careers advice, DCS misconduct, and skirts
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  • Jun 22, 2017
Queen's Speech: Plans to scrap free school meals and create new grammars dropped
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Global: UN warns 'no progress' on 260 million missing school places
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Holiday hunger leads to five-week learning lag
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  • Jun 12, 2017
Greater entitlement to free school meals would reduce stigma, shame ­– and hunger
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  • Jun 5, 2017
Evidence of intent
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  • Jun 5, 2017
More Scottish families to benefit from 'holiday hunger clubs'
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  • Jun 1, 2017
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  • May 26, 2017
Afghanistan: Kids working on Kabul's streets get a second chance at childhood | Sune Engel Rasmussen
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  • May 22, 2017
900,000 children from ‘just about managing’ families hit by Tory free lunch cuts
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  • May 21, 2017
Scrapping free school lunches is an attack on struggling families | Nick Clegg
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  • May 18, 2017
News at a glance: May 11
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  • May 10, 2017
Free sanitary products should be available in schools, say Liberal Democrats
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  • May 9, 2017
Expert who inspired Labour's free school meals policy warns its impact is 'uncertain'
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  • May 9, 2017
Labour announces £1.25bn plan to boost child health
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  • May 8, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 5 May 2017
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  • May 5, 2017
Four hundred thousand UK children without a bed, charity warns
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  • May 5, 2017
Iraq: Without school, children of Mosul feared lost to poverty and conflict
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  • May 2, 2017
£100k per council would abolish holiday hunger, MPs claim
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  • Apr 25, 2017
Action urged on school holiday hunger
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  • Apr 25, 2017
School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says
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Guardian School holidays Poverty Disadvantaged pupils Free school meals Health Wellbeing Hunger
  • Apr 24, 2017
Up to three million UK children risk hunger over school holidays
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Independent School holidays Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Free school meals Hunger
  • Apr 24, 2017
Up to three million children could go hungry during school holidays, MPs warn
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TES School holidays Poverty Free school meals Disadvantaged pupils Hunger Wellbeing Primary schools Secondary schools
  • Apr 24, 2017
Nine homes by the age of nine...
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SecEd Primary schools Disadvantaged pupils Poverty Free school meals Social mobility
  • Apr 19, 2017
Daily roundup 3 April: Child poverty, football abuse, and school funding
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CYPN Football Funding School places School buildings Disadvantaged pupils Poverty
  • Apr 3, 2017