CHILDREN and staff are bearing the brunt of a lack of school funding, a primary school teaching assistant who was hit by pupils “nearly every day” warned today.

The Cardiff-based key worker told public service union Unison that she would dread going into work after being punched, slapped and kicked by young people. 

The teaching assistant, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I would regularly go home and go straight to bed as I would be emotionally and physically exhausted.