Low-paid school support staff are dipping into their own pockets to buy food, supplies and uniforms for pupils, while struggling to pay their own bills, grim research shows.
Almost all (98%) of the 6,000 the workers surveyed by Unison were concerned their wages wouldn't cover the soaring cost of living. School staff often earn less than £20,000 a year.
But big-hearted school staff, who include teaching assistants and librarians, are still using their own cash to help their pupils, with more than a third (35%) helping pupils get enough to eat.
