Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on Children from Low-Income Families: Education Support - June 30
Thursday, 1 July 2021 08:17
Claudia Webbe (Leicester East) (Ind):...A recent National Education
Union member survey found that more than half of respondents have
seen an increase in child poverty at their school or college since
March 2020. The Resolution Foundation predicts that by the next
general election, 730,000 more children and young people will be
caught in poverty’s vicious cycle. Poverty is holding too many
children and young people back, limiting their life chances and
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(Leicester East) (Ind):...A recent National Education Union member survey
found that more than half of respondents have seen an increase in
child poverty at their school or college since March 2020. The
Resolution Foundation predicts that by the next general election,
730,000 more children and young people will be caught in poverty’s
vicious cycle. Poverty is holding too many children and young
people back, limiting their life chances and creating barriers to
their accessing education. A recent survey found that three
quarters of teachers said their students had demonstrated fatigue
or poor concentration in school as a result of poverty. Shockingly,
more than half of surveyed teachers said their students had
experienced hunger or ill health because of poverty, while more
than a third said their students had been bullied as a result of
it. Children accessing free school meals are also 28% less likely
to leave school with five GCSEs graded A* to C than their peers
from wealthier households. The coronavirus pandemic has increased
the pressure facing families on low incomes. A fifth of UK schools
have set up a local food bank since March 2020, while 25% of
teachers report personally providing food and snacks to their
pupils to ensure that they have eaten during the school day...
(Luton South) (Lab):...Over the past
decade, the Conservative Government have inflicted the largest cut
to school funding in 40 years. As a result, they are failing to
tackle poverty and ensure that a quality education is accessible to
all. According to End Child Poverty, 37% of children in my
constituency are living in poverty—the Government should be ashamed
that that figure has increased by 3% since 2014—and this is having
a real impact on their learning. In 2019, a National Education Union survey
found that more than three quarters of respondents stated that
their students had demonstrated fatigue or poor concentration. That
is because of poverty...
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