"The school clothing grant payment is still not enough to buy what a child needs.."

When gathering information on my community, the steps taken were: finding out what people in the community were struggling with; planning where I would find up-to-date information on how many children were living in poverty; how many people were applying for school meals and clothing grants; and if people were not applying for these, why was that? What barriers did people face or did they just not know they were eligible to apply.

The school clothing grant payment is still not enough to buy what a child needs for school. As part of my research I looked at the cheapest shop to buy a uniform from and after going through what a child needs for school and how much the grant payment was at the time, this just was not enough. This can be detrimental to a child's education by not having what they need. However, the clothing grant payment has now gone up to £110.00 in Glasgow and £100.00 in South Lanarkshire and you don't have fill in any forms for this now, a payment is directly sent out to parents. There has been a rise in children arriving in school hungry in the morning