By Alex Metcalfe
A probe into school uniform costs has found some families are cutting back on food to pay clothing bills. A PROBE into school uniform costs has found some families are cutting back on food to pay clothing bills. Stockton Council has urged schools to review their uniform policies “as a matter of urgency” after finding high costs are putting an increased burden on parents. Cllr Steve Nelson told cabinet colleagues how he himself had suffered “uniform segregation” in the 1960s at a meeting on Thursday (December 17). And he later revealed how high uniform costs had triggered a severe hardship for one family.
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A SPINE road lined up for a new Middlesbrough estate has been labelled “absolutely insane” with fears thousands of cars will be channelled into Thornaby. Thornaby mayor Steve Walmsley has repeatedly sounded worries about congestion on major routes in the town – with pleas for a new junction on the A19 to ease traffic jams. A new 30mph north to south road is still in the Stainsby country park vision west of the A19 – with car-owners living in up to 1,670 homes set to use the Mandale Interchange. Now Cllr Walmsley has urged Stockton and Middlesbrough Council leaders to “get their heads together” over worries Thornaby is being treated as a “patsy” and a “regional thoroughfare”.
School uniform probe finds families are cutting back on food to pay for costly clothing
Schools have been urged to review uniform policies as a matter of urgency as prices were found to be putting an increased burden on families
06:00, 20 DEC 2020
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A probe into school uniform costs has found some families are cutting back on food to pay clothing bills.
A PROBE into school uniform costs has found some families are cutting back on food to pay clothing bills. Stockton Council has urged schools to review their uniform policies “as a matter of urgency” after finding high costs are putting an increased burden on parents. Cllr Steve Nelson told cabinet colleagues how he himself had suffered “uniform segregation” in the 1960s at a meeting on Thursday. And he later revealed how high uniform costs had triggered a severe hardship for one family. Cllr Nelson said: “We had a case of someone in the region who borrowed £50 off a loan shark to help pay for a school uniform and ended up owing £30,000.