Now with schools back soon cash-strapped families are being urged to apply for school uniform grants.
Eligible families can receive an Education Authority grant of up to £51 per uniform for seconary schools and £35.75 per primary school uniform.
But as Coleraine Councillor Russell Watton told Q Radio's Roger Donnelly, few families seem to know about the scheme:
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