Saturday 28 May 2022 08:04 PM Private girls' school relax their dress codes to allow shaved heads and ... trends now
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Uniform rules have been relaxed at private girls' schools after years of banning hair and nail colours after students' mental health was called into question.
Strict uniform policies have been part of British schools for hundreds of years, but now in an attempt to modernise and accommodate to the wellbeing of pupils, the attitudes towards nail polish, colourful socks and unnatural hair colour is being changing.
The Girls' Day School Trust, which represents 23 private schools and two academies across the UK, has conducted the start of a more relaxed viewpoint on school uniforms.
They have adopted The Halo Code which is an initiative promoting children wearing their hair as they wish within school.
One of their promises is to let black pupils wear Afro hairstyles without any judgement or restriction on how it is