Shocking sacrifices parents forced to make to afford school uniforms revealed | UK | News

In a survey, more than four parents claimed that they would go without food or heating to meet the school uniform.

A survey of 2,000 parents of the UK in the UK used the credit cards of approximately half (45%) to pay for uniforms, while more than one -third (34%) purchased, then pay, and the schemes such as Klarna to meet the costs.

According to the Parentkind survey, about half (47%) of parents are worried about the cost of buying uniforms for the beginning of the school year.

Education Secretary Schools called on the number of uniform products they needed before a change in the law.

Speaking in front of the new term, Bridget Phillipson said that no family should choose between “put food on the table” and buying a school uniform.

The comments come as a survey conducted by the census between 31 July and 7 August, and that 29% of the parents would go “heating or eating” to pay for school uniform.

He said that about one -third (31%) of parents would enter the debt to get a school uniform.

He said that the parents of children between the ages of four and 15 years old in the UK said that 46% of them were personal sacrifices and went without “without” to pay for school uniform.

The government’s welfare and school bill includes an offer to limit the number of branded uniform products that schools in the UK may need.

The bill, which is currently discussed in the House of Lords, plans to reduce the number of mandatory branded uniform elements of all schools in the UK and reduce a branded tie for three and middle and secondary schools.

The Ministry of Education (DFE) will enter into force as of September 2026.

However, school clothing retailers warned that CAP could increase the costs of families, because parents said they could spend more to change lower quality items that may not last as long as branded products.

Meanwhile, Katharine Bordsingh, the director of Michaela Community School in Brent, north of London, argued that a border on branded school uniform goods could prevent teachers’ efforts to develop behaviors.

The questionnaire found that 85% of parents believed that they could reduce costs by reducing the number of branded school uniform elements needed by schools.

Approximately three of the four (73%) parents said that if schools reduce the number of branded products, it will be financially better, and 61% would facilitate their lives.

In general, 86% of the parents who participated in the survey said that the number of branded school uniforms believe that the number of children who behave well at school “does not make a difference” at school.

Phillipson said: “School uniform is important, but it should not break the bank.

“No family should have to choose between putting food on the table and buying a new blazer.

“This is what we want to give us less costly branded product and exactly what we offer us.

“Schools can help to alleviate the pressure on families by reducing the number of branded products they need.

“Our plan of change is to hold more money in the pocket of hardworking families, so the return shop does not debt the parents and children can focus on their education, not their clothes.”

Parenkind’s General Manager Jason Elsom said, “Parents have encountered the overwhelming cost of sending their children to school for a long time. For many families, bills rose to thousands of people every year and uniforms, books, stationery, trips, laptops and travel.

These reforms are the first real steps to end this injustice.

“Bringing branded school uniform goods will immediately make a difference.”