Welsh education secretary Kirsty Williams is asking school governors and leaders to consider ways of making uniforms more affordable for parents and more “gender neutral”.
In new draft statutory guidance she focuses on “securing equality of treatment” between pupils of different genders and ethnic backgrounds, the growing costs of uniforms, and the practical issues of allowing uniform policy to change during hot or cold weather.
The guidance is seeking to stop confusion and rows over pupils being adjudged to be in “incorrect” uniform. There have been instances of pupils being sent home for wearing shorts in hot weather and girls being disciplined for wearing tights in the cold.
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