According to price comparison website Idealo, 92% of parents spend up to £1,000 to supplement their children’s education and 6% spend over £1,000.
58% of parents in Sheffield agree that school trips are too expensive and 83% believe that the rules regarding taking children on family holidays during term time should be relaxed.
Katy Philips, from Idealo said: “It’s understandable why 83 per cent of Sheffield parents feel schools should be more lenient when it comes to taking your child out of school, with holiday prices spiking so dramatically in the half-term break.
“Not only are parents contending with extortionate holiday prices, they’re having to cough up for school trips so there’s no surprise that this cost leaves families frustrated.”
49% of parents in the UK on a household income of £70,000 believe schools should be more lenient when it comes to taking holidays in term time, compared to 88% of parents on a more modest household income of up to £39,999.
