Heads ask ‘what century are we living in’ over rising food bank use

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Headteachers have criticised “Dickensian” levels of poverty in the country at a conference on Friday.

Paul Gosling, the new president of the NAHT school leaders’ union, told the annual conference in Telford that when he first became a headteacher, he had only heard of the use of food banks in connection with work with the homeless in London.