Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions the voluntary guidance on school uniform costs has been amended since 2013.

The non-statutory ‘school uniform: guidance for schools’ has not been updated since September 2013. This guidance updated the department’s previous guidance on school uniform, published in May 2012, giving it a greater emphasis on securing best value for money in the supply of school uniforms. The guidance is available to view here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform and in the attached document.

The government is supporting the Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Private Members' Bill to enable the department to put our guidance on the cost of school uniform on a statutory footing.