Social care and education staff are among groups of workers being hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis, research by the charity Food Foundation has revealed.
It found that a quarter of workers across health and social care are struggling to feed their families and experienced food insecurity in January this year, when the charity’s survey was carried out.
The proportion rises to 27.9 per cent among social care workers.
More than a fifth of households where education workers live are also struggling. This is particularly prevalent among teaching assistants, with 21 per cent experiencing food insecurity, compared with 17.8 percent of teachers.
Food Foundation warns that almost two in five households living with food insecurity are in employment “indicating that being in work is not necessarily sufficient to prevent families from falling into food insecurity”.
