youth services, according to Labour's shadow children and education
ministers.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow minister for children, and Sharon Hodgson, shadow education minister, said teachers are facing increasing pressure to help pupils with a raft of issues, from housing problems to family finances.
Speaking at a youth select committee inquiry into education, the national curriculum and life skills, Nandy said: "We are concerned that support is disappearing outside the classroom. Young people who might have gone to a youth service provision before do not have access to this now.
"I shadowed a teacher in north London recently and was really surprised to find they were dealing with things like sending pest control to a child's home paid for through the school budget because they had mice in the house and the child didn't want to go home and was upset in school."
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