“The Guardian revealed some quite shocking figures about teachers having to feed children. But this has been going on for a long time – it isn’t anything new. Certainly in my school we are feeding the children ourselves – we have a number of children who regularly need to have a breakfast and a dinner because their families don’t get benefits and they’re not entitled to free school meals.
We also regularly contribute to the food banks in Coventry and we have a number of parents who regularly have to use the food banks. I think in a wealthy country, we should be judging it on whether we can feed our kids and we can’t – that needs to change, the only way that will change is with a redistribution of wealth across the board.”