School uniforms, about time too.

[Fly]

Schools banned from insisting parents buy expensive school uniform to ease the burden on family finances

My mother used to make my trousers for school herself. A blazer was an option, not a necessity.
The only thing you had to buy was the school tie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420800/Schools-banned-insisting-parents-buy-expensive-school-uniform-ease-burden-family-finances.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Pete]

About time too.

[Old Cruser]

There has been a lot of complaints in the DT this week from parents who have had children pulled out after inspection on the back to school day and have been told they can't go back into school unless they get proper shoes etc.

I welcome the news this morning about the uniforms.

[Big Dave]

Surely school governors are parents too; don't they realise the strain having to buy expensive uniforms places on family budgets?

[Old Cruser]

Going back a few years when I had children in school I can only remember Littlewoods and M&S who stocked school uniforms in black and I think blue.
Once Littlewoods had closed that left M&S - it's a costly job to kit out kids and if a parents has two or three - must be a nightmare.