Is school uniform too expensive for some families?
Former school governor Lynne Williams has strong feelings about equality of access to school.
"It prevents people from accessing education because it's like period poverty - when kids don't go because they have got their period and don't have sanitary protection. She said other countries managed without uniforms, and while agreeing it could make mornings easier for parents it "should be very, very accessible, no particular colour, no badges".Moving from primary to secondary has a bit impact on parents' budgets, says Parentkind's Kerry-Jane Packman
The surveys found primary uniform tended to be less of an issue, because primaries often accept just coloured tops without school branding, but the situation at secondary schools was very different."PE kit is another additional cost. I've heard of schools where there's a branded rugby kit, there's a branded athletics kit, there's a branded netball kit.
"With PE kits especially, ask parents whether they think it is necessary that their child has several PE kits, if there's different ways of doing it."
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