Are school uniform costs too high? Birmingham responds

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With uniform prices rising, we ask people in Birmingham how much school uniforms are costing families - and whether the government should step in to make them more affordable.

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00:00I don't know why school uniforms are going up to be honest I feel like that

00:04should be something they should be able to keep at a minimum you know a lot of

00:06parents do struggle putting the kids through school in the first place you see

00:09it a lot like me personally when I was going through school you can see the

00:11struggle around and it's not with everyone but I just feel like that is

00:14something they should be able to keep at a minimum or at least offer

00:16alternatives if the main school uniform like there's like a branded shop that

00:19they use is one price it should allow them to wear a similar color scheme that

00:23isn't as much whilst it does allow people to not feel judged for whatever

00:29clothes they might have brought in anyway school uniforms are pretty expensive and

00:32sometimes they're just very really arbitrary because you have to get like a

00:36tie and a jacket and like smart trousers and stuff and I think it should just I

00:40think they should simplify it well the school uniforms a good idea but a lot of

00:45schools take advantage and have deals with weird little shops and the parents

00:51have to buy it whereas if they walked into Primark they'd get the same thing

00:56for about a third of the price

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