{"id":80093,"date":"2019-04-08T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80093"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:11:40","slug":"mirror-demand-for-donated-uniforms-spikes-as-two-million-school-pupils-hit-by-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80093","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Demand for donated uniforms spikes as &#8216;two million school pupils hit by poverty&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two million children in England have been sent to school in dirty, ill-fitting or incorrect uniform, a children\u2019s charity has said.<\/p>\n<p>A Mirror probe has uncovered a surge in cash-strapped families who rely on handouts from uniform banks for school kit, including basic essentials such as coats, shoes and even underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Figures last month revealed 4.1 million children are in living in poverty and 70% of those are in working families.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 13% of UK children live in families who are getting into debt to pay for school kit, with 17% cutting back on basic essentials, including food, to dress children for school, according to Children\u2019s Society research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/demand-donated-uniforms-spikes-two-14249909\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Demand for donated uniforms spikes as &#8216;two million school pupils hit by poverty&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oivOK9AFFM\">https:\/\/t.co\/oivOK9AFFM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qwswLPESn9\">pic.twitter.com\/qwswLPESn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyMirror\/status\/1114989667181633537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two million children in England have been sent to school in dirty, ill-fitting or incorrect uniform, a children\u2019s charity has said. A Mirror probe has uncovered a surge in cash-strapped families who rely on handouts from uniform banks for school<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80093\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,111,199,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-education","category-england-uk","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80095,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80093\/revisions\/80095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}