The National Education Union's (NEU) State of Education survey includes the views of more than 10,000 teachers and education professionals, and gathered views on how schools can best emerge from the pandemic and continue supporting disadvantaged pupils.
Almost all (94 per cent) of respondents believe that poverty affects children’s learning and just over half (51 per cent) said poverty impacts pupils to a “large extent”.
One teacher surveyed recounts how they called at the home of a pupil after speaking to an older sibling “who was panicking” over details of their free school meal entitlement.
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