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Hygiene poverty causing people to skip work
8.7 million adults in the UK miss work and 1 in 10 children skip school because of hygiene poverty, according to research from the charity - the Hygiene Bank.
Ruth Brock is the CEO of the Hygiene Bank, she's been chatting to BBC Radio Solent's Katie Martin.
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