Free Academy uniform unfair

I AM complaining as a parent. My daughter is going into year seven at the new Littlehampton Academy in September. All years from eight up are getting their uniforms free, but the parents of the new year seven children have to pay for them.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Aug 2009, 14:23 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:17 BST

The school should let everyone for the opening year have free uniforms. It is unfair that families with new children starting at the academy should have to pay for uniforms. They have as much right to free uniforms as the older students.

I'm not the only parent who thinks our children are not being treated fairly, as there are many complaints being lodged with the school on this subject. Many of us can ill afford the prices of uniforms, with little or no help.

What does the principal, Steve Jewell, advise us to do?

Martina Funke

Falkland Avenue

Littlehampton

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Editor's note: The point here is that families with older children had already bought their Littlehampton Community School uniform. Students for year seven would have had to buy uniform, whatever school they will attend.

On the other hand, Save the Children and Family Action have revealed that 51 per cent of parents surveyed with an income below 30,000 can't afford everything needed for the start of the new school year and, of those, 43 per cent say they are likely to have problems buying school uniform.

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