SCHOOL staff feel under pressure to feed children who attend classes without having eaten breakfast or receiving any dinner money, a GMB study has found.

Of the 4,600 school support staff surveyed, 8 per cent felt they had to spend their own money on food for hungry pupils.

GMB national officer Karen Leonard said: “It beggars belief that in one of the richest countries in the world not only are kids coming into school starving – but this government is cutting free school dinners at the same time.