The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) has welcomed Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s move to reduce the cost of school uniforms by requesting schools to survey parents on their uniform preferences. A questionnaire will be issued to parents by all schools next September in time for the next school year. The questionnaire will include low cost options which SVP, Barnardos and the National Parents Council have insisted must be available to parents. “We have repeatedly asked the Minister about the issue and he has obviously listened,” said Audry Deane, SVP Social Justice and Policy Officer.
