Schools: Clothing
Commons · Question 59220 · Tabled 11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools currently permit the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burqa by (i) students and (ii) staff; and whether her Department has issued any guidance on uniform pol
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 19 Jun 2025
The department has published non-statutory guidance on developing a school uniform policy, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform/school-uniforms. The guidance sets out that it is for the governing body of a sch...