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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Parents turn to buy now, pay later schemes to meet Australia’s soaring school costs

Students return to school on the first day of term one
Students returning to school on the first day of term one. One parent says she resorted to Afterpay when faced with paying $700 for a new laptop. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Parents struggling to afford ballooning school costs are increasingly turning to buy now, pay later providers, and advocates say there needs to be more support from schools to avoid families falling into debt.

Dianne Giblin, the chief executive of the Australian Council of State School Organisations, said an increasing number of families say they have used buy now, pay later to afford school items as the cost of public education blows “out of proportion”.

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