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School shirts for £5 per pack
Wouldn’t it be nice if kids only needed one pack of shirts per year? But no we have to have long sleeved and short sleeved and then they grow!
Anyway, I needed some short sleeved boys white school shirts, sized 13-14 or 13. They are not cheap! I looked at M&S – £6 – £12 for two, John Lewis – £8 – £14 for two, then Asda had no stock, neither did BHS, so I turned to Tesco. As I need six, I don’t really want to spend over £30 for school shirts. Now I have bought uniform from Tesco before and not been back in a few years. Quality didn’t cut it. I tended to buy uniform from Sainsburys, but they don’t sell it online.
But this time Tesco saved me and I …
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Campaign to make school uniform more affordable
When it comes to school uniforms striking that all too precarious balance between quality and price can be quite tricky so imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this petition from the Schoolwear Association.
This year the Schoolwear Association are proposing to make school uniform more affordable for UK parents by way of a school uniform voucher scheme. If successful, the petition will work in a similar way to the UK Childcare Vouchers which are currently in effect. Parents will give up a small portion of their salary in exchange for school uniform vouchers which will not only be tax exempt but will also be redeemable at all school uniform stockist.
I think this is great news as it means school uniform will no longer be a burden for us parents and any scheme which …
