Barnardos report finds 78-80% of schools request voluntary contribution with two-thirds of parents saying request ‘did not feel voluntary’
Almost three-quarters of secondary school parents and just more than half of parents with children in primary school are worried about covering back-to-school costs this year, a new survey from children’s charity Barnardos shows.
So-called voluntary contributions continue to be problematic with 78 per cent of primary and 80 per cent of secondary parents saying their schools requested a voluntary contribution at the start of the school year, with about two-thirds saying the request “did not feel voluntary”.
“There is a constant worry of being able to keep up with the basic needs for my son to attend school,” one primary school parent told the charity, while a secondary school parent said the “basic need and right of children shouldn’t be crippling families across the nation in order to care for their educational wellbeing”.
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