AIBU to ask for help with payment

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with DS11 school uniform. He is due to go to senior school in September, the uniform has to be school branded, blazers, trousers, shirts, tie, PE kit(indoor and outdoor, so shorts and trackies, tshirt and hoody, trainers) At the moment he wears supermarket bought school clothes, which I can afford, However, Im looking at around £250.aswel as stationary, school bag etc Would IBU to ask DS dad to contribute? He does pay a small amount of maintenance, (£110 a month). How can I ask without looking like im being grabby?

I doubt many men paying £110 per MONTH in maintenence are struggling to rent and run a flat where a child sleeps once a week. And he has the freedom to work as many hours as he wants as he has hardly any childcare responsibilities

Was that level of child support decided by CMS? Unless he works part time in a low paid job you should be getting much more. Which would help not only with uniform but all the other costs of raising your child.