Nine-year-old Martin doesn’t talk about the cost of living crisis but what he does want to share is that his mother Laura is stressed about things that never upset her before. “Sometimes things happen outside school that make it hard for me to concentrate inside school,” he said, fidgeting with his playdough at his primary school in Streatham, south London.
Earlier Laura, 40, a single mother of five living on benefits, speaking over the phone, said candidly: “I try not to put my worries on my children, but these days I do get bit ‘aggie’ with them.
