Sam Grayson was collecting her daughter from school when a teacher stopped her and thrust a blanket into her hands: “I’m really worried about the children being home and being cold,” she said.
A single mother from Middlesbrough, in north-east England, Grayson is one of many parents increasingly turning to schools to provide food and childcare to make ends meet as the cost of living crisis intensifies.
Food inflation reached 14.6 per cent in September, a record high, with economic conditions across the UK worsening.
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