According to the latest data on national food insecurity levels from The Food Foundation’s Food Insecurity Tracker, the UK’s essential workers are most impacted by food insecurity.
It finds that 21.1 per cent of households in which an education sector worker lives experienced food insecurity in January. Within this group, food insecurity was experienced by households home to the following:
Niamh Sweeney, deputy general secretary at the National Education Union (NEU), said, ‘Pay is a serious issue across the education sector. It is one of the reasons why teachers and support staff are leaving the profession and why many decide not to enter it. The Government missed its target for recruiting new secondary school teachers by 41 per cent this year.
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