Teachers in Redbridge saying poverty is getting worse in Redbridge from 13th February meeting

Below are two teaching staff from Redbridge explaining how bad poverty is in Redbridge and their concerns that it is getting worse



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And the one thing that as a teacher you want to have is a good, healthy breakfast. Because if the child is not physically ready to learn, then it's impossible to to teach that child in a way that you wish you could and the way they deserve.

And the amount of children we've seen, almost all of the schools now in Redbridge are running either breakfast clubs, bagel gloves, where children literally get just a plain bagel because they've had no food coming into school.

And sometimes we have parents.

Which they can't either afford to give children the right kind of breakfast and they get something really sugary, really quick.

That's equally as bad because if the detriment I can have today attention span as well.

So I think breakfast just starting off today is something that we've noticed more and more and we both work in quite deprived regions of the borough and it's been, it's for us. It's really sad to see that you have 10/15 children come in, haven't had breakfast and expected to sit there for six hours and try and concentrate and learn or survive 3 1/2 hours untill lunch.

That's something that's that I know. Where I think it's even worse than that recently is that we've now got children coming into school having not eaten.

Having not been to the toilet because they're in a shared accommodation and someone was in the loo, so they rush in and they say, can I use the toilet? And you're you're thinking in the old days you would have thought, well they, you know, why do they need the toilet? But now we understand that they've not got access to the toilet.

Some of the children are coming into our school with pyjamas under their uniforms, so they're putting a uniform over the top because they've just got no facilities to wash or.

Have anything to eat in the morning, so I think it's actually got worse than. Over the last few months, yeah, I think the next one, the really one is shared with you mentioned shared rooms. So that's many children in one room, many families, boys and girls, even once 19 year 6 going to puberty.

And that comes with the shared facilities. That comes with the how can I concentrate, how can I do homework? How can I have my own kind of life or with my own family, the amount of children.ENDS

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