My friend says lone parents are entitled to help to pay for school uniforms?

[Curiousmama]

Is this true do you know? I'm on IS and a friend today said that I should get help with ds1's school uniform as he's going to comprehensive? I've never heard of this?

[FAQinglovely]

depends on your local council. Some councils still offer help - others (like mine) stopped it.

Have a look on your council website and it will say somewhere on there if they still operate the help or not.

[Curiousmama]

thanks for that FAQ

[GypsyMoth]

I get it ( beds) it's more if your child is transferring to a new school. It's about £20 per child. We also get a discount if we buy uniform from the school.

[HecatesTwopenceworth]

Why lone parents? You could have a lone parent in a job earning them £100,000.

Does she mean people on low incomes?

[UndertheBoredwalk]

It's not lone parents, it's parents on IS or jobseekers. And as said not all councils offer it. I'm in Liverpool and just today got my £20 cheque towards school uniform.

[GypsyMoth]

We get vochers here, not cheques. Plenty of shops take them I hope now woolworths have gone.

Yes, you need to be claiming IS for it. Or jobseekers, possibly disability too, not too sure, but definitely IS

[mrsmortenharket]

i don't think we get it in sw

[bakerslovecakes]

my local ed department told me that you cant get it now even if your on IS, only if you have a flood or something like that. They told me to apply to charities for help but they said that takes months so i didnt bother.