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It’s called poverty, Mr Blight
A short piece by TALLULAH COULTHARD, aged 10, about life as a child on universal credit
Tallulah Coulthard knows what it's like to have to use a foodbank
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GOOD morning everyone, how are you feeling, said the headmaster, Mr Blight, as he walked into the assembly room.
Out of 10, how is your day so far? The crowd grumbled, a child put their hand up followed by a couple of more children.
The first child said: “When I woke up I was hungry, starving in fact because I have had no tea or breakfast for the last one-and-a-half weeks. My mum is poor and can’t pay the fees for school dinners nor packed lunches so I have to go to this place called a foodbank.
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