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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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David Cohen

On The Breadline: ‘Tensions at home aren’t just battles over bread and milk’

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(Picture: Matt Writtle )

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 anxious 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 play-dough at his primary school in Streatham.

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