DS is 14 and definitely hasn't finished growing, he takes a size 7 and has fairly wide feet plus he has dyspraxia and hasn't mastered tying his shoes in any reliable way.
He needs walking shoes for Explorers (or boots but he's never really had boots and finds tight/close shoes really uncomfortable), ideally waterproof and ideally not too expensive as he's going to grow out of them not wear them out.
He could probably get away with laces or elastic laces for these, but he ALSO needs trainers, preferably with velcro.
Currently he's existing in his school shoes as that's all we could get that fit him with Velcro at the excellent independent children's shoe shop near us.
We tried a pair of Quechua walking shoes from Decathlon but he says they "squeeze" and we can obviously go and get him fitted at a good outdoors shop but I don't really want to spend £100s if he's going to grow out of the boots.
And for velcro trainers we are lost - Geox are wide but the boys sizes stop at 6.