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?

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.

thanks for that FAQ

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.

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

Does she mean people on low incomes?

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.

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

i don't think we get it in sw

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.