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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray

‘Children have bowed legs’: hunger worse than ever, says Norwich school

Close-up of young pupil eating a buttered bagel
The school works with the national charity Magic Breakfast to provide all pupils with free food at the start of each day. Photograph: Si Barber/The Guardian

Jade Hunter is used to her pupils coming to school without breakfast but she has never seen them as hungry as they have been over the past year.

“We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs,” said Hunter, a headteacher at West Earlham infant and nursery school in Norwich.

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