A head teacher has been forced to ask his mother and sister to help out at school - due to a lack of staff.
Steve Hitchcock, 44, of St Peter's Primary in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, said he was losing some catering staff to supermarkets because they paid more.
He said energy bills had risen 100 per cent in the last six months, the catering bill was £38,000 in the red and the school did not have the money for staff pay increases of between five and 10 per cent.
