According to a September Censuswide study, 4 out of 5 school employees think there has been a rise in “hygiene poverty” issues in their school over the past 12 months, and 3 of them claimed the growth has been “significant”.
Moreover, nearly two out of every three school employees stated they anticipate an increase in the degree of hygienic poverty in the following academic year.
Sixty percent of the students reported seeing unclean PE kits or uniforms, and more than three out of five (62%) reported seeing unwashed hair and unclean teeth.
According to a survey of 500 school employees in the UK, nearly three out of ten (28%) had witnessed students miss school on a regular basis due to poor hygiene.
The school staff said that they had bought soap, toiletries, and laundry detergent for families in need in addition to personally washing the uniforms of the students.
According to the questionnaire, school employees on average paid £27 of their own money for students’ hygienic poverty help in the previous year.
