Thanks for saying so 🙂 x

Good question! Retailers will make basics on long lead time, i.e. in places like Bangladesh where prices are low to maximise on profit. But buying from a country like Bangladesh doesn’t always equal v low wages and few labour rights. For example People Tree (who don’t produce school uniform) work with some wonderful factories in Bangladesh. One source of information is Fashion Revolution’s transparency index which rates the top 200 retailers for how much they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and impact. Copy this link for 2019’s version https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fashion_transparency_index_2019 Here H&M get a score of 61% & M&S 56%. Other brands such as Tesco have their buy one give one policy, where they offer a school uniform to a child in need for every school uniform bought, but you need to decide how much this is a PR stunt vs showing a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives.

Daisy is in reception and so far I have got second hand all her grey uniform (easy to do in reception I would imagine) & for her white shirt’s gone to M&S.

As you can see there are no easy answers, but I hope that goes some way to answering your question. One thing I would say is to ask questions of the brands, if they see you care then they will care.

Thanks

Karen xxx