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What about government - surely there are official guidelines?
There are indeed - but they are open to interpretation. The Department for Education and Skills' official guidelines says that uniform policy must be sensitive to differences and the need to adhere to dress for racial or religious reasons.
It stresses that a pupil should not be disciplined for refusing to adhere to a uniform for religious reasons, and that exclusion on these grounds is even less appropriate. Miss Begum's lawyers argued the school had breached these official rules.
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Regardless of which way any decision goes, the school still ended up in court.