{"id":55477,"date":"2025-05-26T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/universal-school-uniform-grant-to-help-thousands-in-tower-hamlets\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:11:42","slug":"universal-school-uniform-grant-to-help-thousands-in-tower-hamlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/universal-school-uniform-grant-to-help-thousands-in-tower-hamlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal school uniform grant to help thousands in Tower Hamlets"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tower Hamlets Council estimates the grant will help about 7,000 students <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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About 7,000 families in east London are set to benefit from a council’s universal school uniform grant.<\/p>\n

The \u00a3150 will be available to children who are entering their first year of primary or secondary school, if their families have a household income of \u00a350,350 or less.<\/p>\n

Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets, said it would “go some way” to support children in the borough, while Mohi, a local parent, said school uniform costs were a “matter of worry” for himself and his family.<\/p>\n

It comes as the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill<\/a> looks to limit the number of branded uniform items a school can require, to ease the financial burden on parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mohi, from Tower Hamlets, says school uniform costs are a worry for his family<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“I’m working in a solicitor’s, but you know, day by day our costs and expenses are really high,” Mohi said. <\/p>\n

“As a parent, we always think ahead. So [uniforms] is something that is a matter of worry for me and my family.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The head of London Enterprise Academy said its school uniform costs were more than \u00a3200, but that they supplied some items to students free of charge.<\/p>\n

“I realise it’s a very expensive time in August for parents, so as a school, since we opened, we subsidised the uniform,” its principal Ashid Ali said.<\/p>\n

“All of our students will get a free PE kit when they join our school, and when they move to Year 10, we have always provided free blazers, as the children are growing up.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Suraia says students can feel “inferior” due to their clothing at school<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Suraia, a student at the school, said when pupils felt “inferior” to their peers because of their clothing, it affected “literally everything”, including their education.<\/p>\n

Tower Hamlets Council announced the school universal uniform grant earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Mr Rahman said: “It will go some way in supporting our youngsters at primary school and when they go into secondary school.<\/p>\n

“Giving them some financial help, some 7,000 children in a year will be supported.”<\/p>\n

The City of London offers grants to families that earn under \u00a37,400 or are on benefits, while Westminster City Council provides a grant to families eligible for free school meals. Wandsworth Council offered a voucher scheme.<\/p>\n

To try to reduce costs for everyone, the government is proposing a limit of three branded uniform items at primary school and four at secondary.<\/p>\n

“This means, for the first time, no school in England will be able to require unnecessarily large numbers of branded items, so no parent will be unfairly disadvantaged,” a spokesperson for the Department for Education said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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