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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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1 in 5 parents say they're struggling with the cost of sending their children to school according to the National Parent Survey.
There're uniform costs, school trips, afterschool clubs and school dinners to consider, but is there a way to keep costs down?
Some changes are on the way with government plans to give every parent of a child in a state primary school in England the legal right to a half hour breakfast club, as well as limits on how many branded uniform parents have to buy.
This week Felicity Hannah will hear from parents and is joined by Jo Thurston, parenting coach from Action for Children’s Parent Talk service, Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at the investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown and Neil Renton, Head Teacher of Harrogate Grammar School.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Reporter: Sarah Rogers Editor: Jess Quayle
(This programme was first broadcast at 3pm on Wednesday the 15th of January 2025)
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0:44.3 | Across the UK, children are well into the spring term now, but one in five parents say they're struggling with the expense. |
0:51.0 | Education might be provided by the state, but there is still a lot for parents to |
0:55.0 | stump up for. There's uniform costs, trips. Increasingly, there's a need for technology, |
1:00.2 | plus wraparound care, and of course, pack lunches or school dinners. |
1:03.9 | It's so expensive. It's at least a couple of hundred quid a month. |
1:08.4 | But some changes could be on the way that might save some parents some cash. |
1:12.8 | There are government plans to give every child in England who goes to a state primary school |
1:16.8 | the legal right to a half-hour breakfast club, as well as limits on how much branded uniform |
1:21.9 | parents have to buy. So today we're looking at the cost of having a school-age child. |
1:27.1 | Before we meet today's experts in managing those costs, |
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