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I know police officers who have to intervene in poverty because they are dealing with it in the streets—they are dealing with the violence, the unhappiness, the mental illness, the crime, and all sorts of things—but no one has ever educated a police officer to deal with poverty. No one has ever educated a teacher to be other than a teacher, but in the course of the last 10 or 20 years, they have had to take on the role of social worker, and they do not have the skills, the ability or the time to do it; they have to get on with being a teacher.