Teachers in some parts of the UK have been left to personally wash students' school uniforms and install washing machines to combat students' poor hygiene.
Teachers in some parts of the UK have been left to personally wash students' school uniforms and install washing machines to combat students' poor hygiene. Hygiene poverty is having an impact on Britain's schools, with 80% of teachers citing an increase in hygiene poverty among school students.The findings were laid out in a survey by smog - a cleaning brand - and the Hygiene Bank charity.
Read more: Rise in 'hygiene poverty' as teachers report seeing pupils with dirty clothes, unwashed hair and unbrushed teethRead more: Mother's fury after daughter 'threatened with detention for wearing poppy to school' 'Choice'Lisa Cropper, a family support practitioner at St Cuthbert's Academy in Blackpool, told Sky News that parents had confided in her that they felt they had to make a "choice" between washing and the electricity.
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