Mums devise unique barcode system to stop children losing their school uniform

Watch the full report from ITV Anglia's Sarah Cooper.

All parents have been there... sending their children off to school fully kitted out in uniform, but by the time they come home, half of it's gone missing.

So two mothers have decided to swap name tags for something more normally seen in the supermarket - they're making unique barcodes to stick onto children's clothes.

They claim it's more effective more old-fashioned name tag.

The idea is that parents and teachers can scan the barcode on an app to find out who the clothes belong to.

The barcodes are being trialled at their children's school in Milton Keynes.

It'll still be up to parents to actually put the barcodes on the clothes. But it's a high tech attempt to make lost property a thing of the past.