A new law to protect parents in England from unnecessary school uniform costs comes into effect from September 2022.
State schools will be forced to remove unnecessary branded items from their uniform requirements, allowing parents to shop around or hand clothes down more easily.
An issue for some is that September's new rules come with a loophole.
It means schools which need to secure a new uniform contract with a supplier have until December 2022 to put that in place. They then have until the start of the September 2023 school year to introduce those garments.
The new legislation requires branding to be kept to a minimum, but does not ban it, so some children will continue to wear some items with school logos, for example blazers.
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