Families spend €400 per child for new school year

IRISH families will spend about €400 on each child getting them ready to go back to school.

The survey of 1,000 people by the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) found that, on average, school uniforms with shoes (€229) and schoolbooks (€182) are the biggest related expenses for parents.

Parents of a primary school child were found to pay €125 for schoolbooks while parents of a child in secondary school forked out nearly twice that (€238).