Children pretending they have food in their school lunchboxes

Nurses using foodbanks or quitting the NHS for a better paid job.

Women on their period forced to stay home from school, college or work because they can’t afford sanitary products.

The cost-of-living crisis was explored at London Met Journalism’s annual conference – with the key moments captured here in this podcast.

Podcast team: Grace Shaw, Sara Scheeres, Sam Sorabjee and Elliot Hammond.