Education in brief: will some schools ever obey ministers' uniform rules?

 Parents and students protesting at Snaresbrook school about the possibility of it becoming an academy.
New guidelines, billed as putting pressure on governing bodies to limit the cost of school uniforms to parents, were unveiled at last week's Liberal Democrat party conference. What difference will they make? A close comparison of the new guidance, published this month, with the May 2012 advice it replaces shows that, as of last year, schools were already being urged to "give high

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