, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Supporting the Education Workforce
… who are most in need of support, for example, in terms of cost of living, in terms of school uniform and events at school, but also, a she will be aware, the work that we are doing along …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… free for every child in primary school, and the additional support that we provide to help people with school uniforms and additional items around the school day. These are practical measures that we take within our powers. The …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales
Active school uniforms, Cabinet Secretary, which I think some English schools are taking forward—I wonder whether that's within your consideration as well …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 2
… they are seeing parents that are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. They are struggling to buy school uniform; they are struggling with school transport costs. And while I would agree with Eithne that it's not …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… worth £764 a year per child. On top of this, we give support to parents to pay for school uniforms and equipment. Our educational maintenance allowance of £40 a week is the most generous in the …
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Questions to the First Minister
… the UK to introduce free school meals. We have free school breakfasts. We give support for people with school uniforms. And we've got the most generous education maintenance allowance in the United Kingdom. So, there …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
… that. The work that I’ve done as Minister to ensure that we changed school guidance on school uniform and increased the availability of the school essentials fund is an example of the work that is taking place …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
… pupil development grant. The pupil development grant is available for access to all sorts of equipment, not just school uniform, but sports equipment, anything that a child needs, particularly in that transition from primary to secondary school, where … the uniform process—gym kit and all the rest of it. And that's why it's higher. It goes up from £125 per pupil to £200 per pupil in that transition to secondary school. So, that …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 4
… Rowlands's report showed that really strongly. However, it's the cost-of-living crisis coupled with expensive school uniforms and the possibility of expensive school trips. And the shame around this is really high—so, those young …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
… Literally, the children need a change of clothes and their normal school shoes. In the same way that school uniform banks will operate to give to them, some schools have that in operation, where they'll be able …
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
… address the issues much earlier. There has been much debate around reform of the school year, branded school uniform costs and period dignity—the actual cost of school. But we know that the cost of living is undoubtedly …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
… and she'd delight in telling people that when my father was little, she'd made his entire school uniform, even down to the grammar school blazer, with the barathea material she'd bought in Pontypridd market, and …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Cost of Living
… primary schools and to take steps to reduce the cost of the school day and the cost of school uniforms and continue to provide free period products in all schools in Wales. We have substantially increased the education …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis—The effect on schools and children
… the United Kingdom to make uniform guidance statutory to better support governing bodies in making their decisions on school uniform policies in respect of access, affordability and flexibility. We will continue to work with schools and governing bodies …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
… parents it is one of the main concerns. When we survey parents in Wales about school costs, inevitably school uniform cost comes out top, but behind that the second biggest concern is school trips. And about half …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 7
… and discourage disadvantaged learners from attending. I certainly know from my own experience, I used to hate no-school-uniform days and events where you didn't have to wear a uniform. Do you think that there could … Winter of Wellbeing and the pilot on extending the school day, not just in terms of the stigma that's attached to many young people during non-uniform days, but other factors that could contribute, albeit without …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… for me in terms of childcare, Flying Start or any kind of assistance with education or provision of school uniform?'—anything that may be available through Welsh Government funding to support families—people can be directed absolutely …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—The co-operation agreement
… are other, of course, grants that still follow the former eligibility for free school meals in terms of school uniform et cetera, and indeed the holiday provision of free school meals, of course, is provided on that basis …
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Short Debate: Knowledge is power: Education as a route out of poverty
… access has made a huge difference to many disadvantaged families across Wales, assisting to alleviate concerns about buying school uniform or equipment, and enabling children to go to school and take part in activities at the same level …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2020 - 2021
… job on this, I have to say, and guidance has been passed by Government on things like affordable school uniform, which we're still having to remind schools about, but it's helping, as is the pupil development …