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Schools: Uniforms

Original answer

The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.

Schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities legislation and act reasonably, fairly and flexibly in the interests of all their children.

The answer was corrected by Nick Gibb (Conservative)

on Wednesday, 2 December 2015 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Corrected answer

The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.

Schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities legislation and act reasonably, fairly and flexibly in the interests of all their children.

The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.

Our guidance to schools on school uniform is clear that schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities law, and act reasonably and fairly in the interests of all their students.

We would expect all schools to act flexibly in response to reasonable requests to vary their uniform policy.

The Department's guidance on school uniform is available online: www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

902428

Session

2015-16

Question not reached

Yes

Subjects

Schools Uniforms Islam

Link

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