• 61% of parents admit to buying school shoes that don’t fit (affecting 5m+ children)
• Shoes that don’t fit wear out more quickly
• 48% of parents don’t check if school shoes fit properly
• Poor footwear choices during childhood significantly increase the risk of long term foot deformities and chronic pain
• 70% of adult foot issues originate in childhood
Over five million children in the UK could be heading back to school in shoes that will damage them, as new research from Start-Rite Shoes has found 61 per cent of parents buy school shoes “too big”. The research also found that 48 per cent of parents don’t check that school shoes fit properly and four in 10 (40 per cent) school children have complained their shoes hurt them.
“It is now understood that around 70 per cent of adult foot issues originate in childhood, so poor footwear choices during childhood significantly increase the risk of long term foot deformities...
