CHILDREN’S education is being “devastated” by the cost-of-living crisis with youngsters turning up for school hungry, wearing dirty and damaged clothes, inappropriate footwear, tired and with no energy for lessons.

Teachers are regularly giving food and money to needy families and referring them to foodbanks.

The shocking picture of life in many schools in England and Wales today comes from a survey of more than 6,000 teachers carried out by teaching union NASUWT.