Showers run dry as cost of living locks millions in hygiene poverty this winter

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EMBARGOED TO 0001 TUESDAY OCTOBER 1EDITORIAL USE ONLY40 items of school uniform hang out to dry on a clothes line in Westminster, which represent the £40 million spent by state school staff of their own money on hygiene products for pupils, as laundry brand smol and charity The Hygiene Bank launch their ‘Clean Up Child Hygiene Poverty’ campaign. Issue date: Tuesday October 1, 2024. PA Photo. Backed by the teachers union NASUWT, the campaign is calling on the government to urgently address the issue of hygiene poverty in its upcoming Child Poverty Strategy.

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY (L-R) British actor Charlotte Ritchie and Singer/songwriter Joy Crookes hold a giant receipt printed from a billboard installation near Finsbury Park Tube station in London, commissioned by the Trussell Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of their ‘It Doesn’t Add Up Campaign’, aiming to highlight issues following the launch of the new Universal Credit amount. Picture date: Tuesday April 4, 2023. PA Photo. The different parts of the receipt, which include personal cost of living crisis stories, actual costs of essentials, and messages of anger, will be torn off and pasted up on display in the area around the billboard.

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