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Finding themselves in increasingly desperate financial circumstances, many families with young children are continuing to turn to nurseries for help. A National Education Union (NEU) poll of 1,026 teachers in England this year found 40 per cent are having to provide extra items for children because of what the union called ‘Dickensian’ levels of poverty.
Much has been made of the Department for Education’s programme to target ‘holiday hunger’ last summer, but plans to run a similar Easter pilot this year have been dropped.
Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields and former shadow minister for children and families, argues the programme does not go far enough, calling it a ‘short-term, piecemeal measure’.
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