A school has been accused of “bullying” its pupils into colouring in their shoes with black marker in order to meet uniform regulations. Click here for the full article.

Sainsbury’s general merchandise and clothing continues to grow faster than its food business, despite a challenging market in the last year. The supermarket, which posted preliminary results for the 52 weeks to March 17 this morning, reported 38% growth in schoolwear sales on the year. In sold over 100,000 pairs of trousers and over 140,000 [...]

A North West personalised schoolwear supplier is gearing up for growth. Click here for the full article.

A school in Romford has reassured parents that they probably will not have to go to Hertfordshire to buy school uniform, and is now more likely to go to a Dagenham company. Click here for the full article.

Tesco is to report its lowest rate of profit growth for seven years as it unveils a strategy to revamp its UK business and compete with Amazon online. Click here for the full article.

Angry parents have hit out at school uniform changes, saying they were not consulted about the move. Hessle High School has written to parents announcing uniform changes to be introduced from September. Click here for the full article.

Shock at being made redundant when a school outfitter’s store in Dover was shut by receivers two weeks ago has quickly turned to action for two of the six former employees. Click here for the full article.

A school concerned about the length of students’ skirts has become the latest to ban them from the uniform. Click here for the full article.

UK retail sales volumes fell by 0.8% in February compared with the previous month, figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown, with clothing and footwear seeing some of the biggest falls. Click here for the full article.

Schools have been warned that it is “never appropriate” to exclude pupils for “minor infringements” such as breaching school uniform codes or wearing jewellery in a report published by the Children’s Commissioner for England. Click here for the full article.