Children surviving on one slice of bread a day and struggling to stay awake in class, warns school boss
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA school boss has warned kids are going hungry at home and surviving on as little as one slice of bread a day. Sally Brooks has seen a rise in families using food banks while students have struggled to stay awake in lessons because their parents cannot afford food.
One boy had been arriving at school an hour late for over a week and was struggling to stay awake, MyLondon reports. Ms Brooks, executive principal at Fulham Cross Academy, west London, said: "There just wasn’t any food at home. Read more: Dad's terror that he and daughter, 16, will soon be homeless - weeks after amputation "Mum had had to use the money to make sure that the house had electricity. "For younger siblings they prioritised feeding them.
They were basically surviving on a slice of bread and something they could put on it. "He was not able to get up in the morning.
We have now been able get him into the breakfast club. "We have had a father come in asking for sanitary products for teenage girls and that takes a lot of guts to do." 'Is this the drugs hour?': ITV Corrie fans complain about pre-watershed drug taking scenes 17 arrested as 'groups of youths' cause 'chaos' at Arndale centre The headteacher said that the number of families using her school's food bank has almost doubled to 45 in a year.
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