Mum pulls daughter out of school in socks row

PARENT'S ANGER OVER UNIFORM POLICY SWITCH

- EMMA GILL

A MUM has pulled her teenage daughter out of school in a row over its uniform policy and swift departure of staff.

Girls at Irlam and Cadishead Academy, in Irlam, Salford, were previously told to wear knee length black socks and Wendy Allsopp's daughter Olivia, in Year 9, was one of a few students chosen to appear in the school's open evening poster displaying the uniform.

But this academic year, the longer socks have been replaced with ankle socks in a policy change that Wendy says wasn't adequately communicated to parents mentioned briefly in an end of summer term pastoral letter and not a specific uniform update, which she believes was necessary.