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Is it too expensive to send your child to school?: New data reveals secondary school costs parents £2,300 a year
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15/05/2025
The cost of sending a child to a state school is costing parents around £2,300 a year.
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well there's no doubt that parents they're sort of they're struggling in general because of course
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bills are going up um and indeed so the school costs are part of that and indeed buying clothes
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which of course you may buy your clothes from i don't wherever at um the prices they can afford
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but when it comes to school uniform your choice is very limited i know there's some personal
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experience um you have to buy the sort of the right uniform and if you don't then of course
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there's all sorts of issues and you don't want your child to sort of look different from the rest
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um and there's also an issue of course that sort of you buy clothes for your sort of children both
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primary school and secondary school and of course that's the age at which they're sort of they're
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growing so you buy clothes this year and they're sort of they don't fit the next year and so you
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have to then you do with them maybe you sort of you give them to someone else or maybe sort of
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but undoubtedly it's a sort of constant sort of struggle to sort of find the money to sort of
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give your child this is the best possible start which of course is to sort of sort of look the
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part and to feel the part and of course there's a whole lot of other things that sort of come with
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going to school which is school trips and school meals and so on and so forth so it's a major major
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expense for sort of parents who have probably sort of finged the sort of pinch left right and centre
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now interestingly a new law could see the price of school uniforms be slashed
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the department of education has revealed that parents spend around four hundred and forty two
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pounds on secondary school uniform a cap on branded items is set to come in as part of the children's
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well-being and schools bill this could see items of school uniform become more affordable to parents
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it's a real struggle at the moment for schools because of course their budgets are so shrinking and
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of course there's a whole set of other sort of demands that come upon them but then of course
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it comes to sort of the child the child has got to sort of both be physically sort of capable of
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learning which of course is about the sort of the you know their sort of nutrition and of course we
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hear lots of stories about sort of breakfast clubs which of course is about sort of trying to
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supplement that because of course if children go to school with a sort of an empty stomach then of
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course that's not good for them but also the psychological thing that if you sort of feel that you're sort of
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part of the sort of the system and you sort of fit in then of course that that that's how it should be
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it's so so vital because of course if they don't get their best possible start then of course the
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world can be sort of much more difficult than it needs to be
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