19 May 2025, 07:20 | Updated: 19 May 2025, 08:32

By Matthew Easter

As Chair of the Schoolwear Association - and a father to school-age children - I see every day how important school uniform is, both for families trying to manage costs and for young people trying to fit in.

It protects teenagers from peer pressure, levels the playing field, and sets the right tone in school for pupils to succeed.

Working people are navigating one of the toughest cost-of-living crises in decades. It’s understandable the government wants to act.

But its proposal to cap the number of branded school uniform items each school can require is not the solution. It risks making life harder and more expensive for the very families it’s trying to help.

The Education Secretary wants to impose a blanket limit of just three branded items, plus a tie. If this goes ahead, schools will be forced to drop durable, good-value school........

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