‘They need cheaper alternatives’: how do you make school uniforms cheaper?

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We’re speaking to people in Cardiff about their experiences with schools uniforms, and whether the Welsh government should be trying to make it cheaper for families.

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00:00I was a teacher myself, so I saw it from both sides as a family man with kids in school.

00:06Yeah, I do think it's expensive for school uniforms.

00:10I think if you can buy a similar alternative in a store like, say, Panglin, Pepengol,

00:17where you can maybe go to the school and just buy the badge and sew it on.

00:21Anything that the government can do to help parents put their kids through education

00:25and make that a more accessible experience for all people from different socioeconomic backgrounds would be incredible.

00:32I quite like a badge because it might remind you of the culture of the school.

00:36Do your best, be your best.

00:38And there's a badge on my uniform in secondary school.

00:41And I know that there's only two shops that you can get this uniform in for my new secondary school.

00:45However, my primary school, there was no badge.

00:48And you could get them in Tesco's and in Marcus and Spencer's and in Dunn's,

00:53which we have back in Ireland where I'm from.

00:54So I would say it's much easier without the badge.

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