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How can children learn when they are wracked by poverty?
NEU general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE warns that after 14 years of Conservative rule, fatigue, hunger and poor health are commonplace in Britain’s schools

IT’S 2024, in the sixth-richest nation on the planet, and child poverty stalks the land.

Twelve million people — 18 per cent of the entire UK population — are living in absolute poverty, 3.6 million of them children. 

Nearly a fifth of people are struggling to meet basic needs and an additional 300,000 children have fallen into poverty over a 12-month period.

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