Madge - you could try actually considering some of the points that people have made, rather than laughing at them. As multiple previous posters have mentioned, the weather here is borderline, e.g. it would not be worth parents buying completely snow and ice proof coats, boots, hats and other items each year, when they are likely to be needed only for a week or two. They would also need replacing each year as children grow (sorry I know this is obvious but so are some other points that people are missing).
I grew up in England, but somewhere reasonably hilly, where snow was a bit more frequent. We walked to school whatever the weather, so had great snowproof boots. (Which then left us with baking hot feet inside if we didn't remember to bring pumps to change into.) My children do not currently have snowproof boots, I don't feel that they are neglected. Where we live now, the pavements are cleared, on the occasional snowy days, so it would be very unusual for them to need more than their sensible shoes.
If we lived in a colder climate, we would include snow proof clothing in our essentials budget, and presumably also make sure to pass on too small clothes so that people on lower budgets could use them without being made bankrupt. There just is not the need or demand for it in the English climate. The few extreme days of the year are therefore tricky.
Grit - councils have very tight budgets. They can only budget for an average winter. There is very little leeway. They also have limited storage space, particularly as the stores of grit need to readily accessibly without taking the gritters too far out of their way (e.g. can't just fill up an old quarry in the middle of nowhere as a long term grit store, as it would be too far from the roads that need gritting and too difficult to dig out when needed).
But I'm sure you will just ignore this and carry on rudely laughing at the inferior ways of the country that you have strangely chosen to live in.