Hugh Scullion Workers Party Representative for Mid-Ulster is calling on the Education Minister to instruct schools to stop brand name uniform items from single suppliers.

Mr Scullion is calling on the education minister to issue instructions to schools to stop expecting parents to buy expensive branded items of uniforms from named suppliers. Clearly the guidelines being issued following the consultation on school uniforms and lauded by the minister and the executive is not going to carry much weight with local schools. One parent in Magherafelt has complained that they were having to pay £90 for a primary one PE kit this cannot be justified and the minister must...