Teachers warn children missing school over dirty uniforms amid growing hygiene poverty crisis
It is believed that approximately three million children are experiencing hygiene poverty in the UK, and increasing number of students kidnapped school because of dirty uniforms and bullying.
While the government is preparing to publish the task force strategy of the government, new research from Lundry Brand Smol increases by 68 % annually in public school teachers who report the daily examples of students who experience hygiene poverty with the support of the National Aid Organization Hygiene Bank.
Data showed that 91 percent of teachers believe that students believe that they are affected in the long term, 76 percent of them damage their own values, 75 percent referred to mental health and 65 percent affect their ability to establish friendship.
More than one -third of teachers (39 percent) witnessed that children avoided eye contact and almost half (49 percent) saw that they lived away from their peers.
One teacher investigated that the students talked about children who spoke “the same clothes for two weeks”, showing that the students were “entering school after summer holidays and that they were not washed for six weeks”.
A deputy director warned that some children have become “retreat and silent in their class and friendship, and a student cries at a support meeting because they were ashamed of having to ask for soap”.
Victoria Archer working at a State London Primary School Independent: “It was always there, but in the last five years, we have seen that the last two years worsened to the point where it was very difficult.
“Children are quite dirty, but now it is often. They will not remove their Jumpers because they will not raise their hands under dinner stains and due to body odor.”
MS Archer added: “Tooth brushing is absolutely a problem. We are running our own food bank in Christmas, and in the last two years, parents, food bank’s sanitary products, toothbrushes, detergent and so on.
In addition to being aware of the students, parents said that they wanted to avoid joining the “scattered game” because they cannot meet their children’s cleaning products.
“We see that the students who once confident and participated in the class were withdrawn and silent.
“Their friendship disappears, they stop putting themselves forward, and their progress at school begins to slip.
“Many people still do not fully understand what hygiene poverty is or how much it holds.
“It is damaging their trust and limiting their future. It is time for this problem to be handled properly, because no child should not miss their training because they have no access to clean clothes.”
It was found that students with hygiene poverty avoided physical education courses, and 52 percent of them were ashamed to go to school.
In general, this causes students to miss an average of 6.5 school days per year and a total of 23 million -day learning loss.
The study saw that 500 public school students participated in the purpose of raising awareness about this “invisible crisis”.
They launched a campaign for SUDS in schools to provide laundry in educational institutions, and 95 percent of teachers said that access to washing facilities will benefit children and families under hygiene poverty.
Hygiene Bank CEO Ruth Brocck said: “Hygiene poverty keeps children away from the things that the school should offer: learning, friendship, play and trust. No child should miss school because they cannot access a clean uniform, deodorant or basic hygiene products.
“At the Hygiene Bank, we see how embarrassment around the hygiene poverty and why it is so vital to talk about it. Together with Smol, we make this invisible crisis visible and call the people and policy makers to take action.”
