To ask if anyone is clued up on the challenge this week to VAT on school fees?

Exactly, it just isn’t true. The same parents who are willing to send their kids to a private miles away from their home suddenly are demanding a state school has to be in walking distance… and claiming there’s no places available near them. My state school
was 4 miles from school, and I got a bus, a normal bus, like 100s of thousands of secondary children do all over the country.

Sorry but I’m just not going to go by your say so. More details are required re the 0 places as it’s very hard to believe in the current climate.

@BotanicalGreen

"Oh FFS just grow up?"

And you believe that putting VAT on private education will rebuild "services decimated by the Tories"? How about Santa, or the Tooth Fairy?

I would put money on Mrsbabbecho being older than you.

Please don’t just dismiss it, give it a read. Walking groups in particular would be a great way to get that social interaction in a more healthy way.

It’s a tax on education services of people aged between 5 and 18, commonly referred to as children. The treating the electorate as idiots part would be claiming a policy that will be a net cost to the state will be used for ‘rebuilding services’ along with recruiting 6000 teachers, breakfast clubs and a mental health specialist in every school.

It’s not aimed at children it’s aimed at rebuilding services decimated by the Tories and as for treating the electorate as morons let’s look at Brexit, lockdown, Rwanda, stealth destruction of the NHS (and pretty much anything they touched)……

It’s not aimed at children it’s aimed at rebuilding services decimated by the Tories and as for treating the electorate as morons let’s look at Brexit, lockdown, Rwanda, stealth destruction of the NHS (and pretty much anything they touched)……

It’s not aimed at children it’s aimed at rebuilding services decimated by the Tories and as for treating the electorate as morons let’s look at Brexit, lockdown, Rwanda, stealth destruction of the NHS (and pretty much anything they touched)……

I think mainly because it’s aimed at children and partly because of it’s dishonest justification/treating the electorate as morons.

Left wing authoritative Governments always want to control education, it’s to be expected but they should be honest for their reasoning in policy making. Attempting to sell it as revenue making or linking independent schools to inadequate state school funding is treating the electorate as idiots and there’s going to be a lot of dissapointed idiots and upset children for absolutely no benefit.

Trashing the economy for ideology is a proven political pursuit. Why are Labour getting it in the neck for it ?

I don't really think Labour are doing it for the money. They are doing it because they are against private schools. I hope the litigation is won however and the awful proposed change is struck down.

Sorry but I’m just not going to go by your say so. More details are required re the 0 places as it’s very hard to believe in the current climate.

And the LA are then having to pay for taxi at a cost to the taxpayer. You see the irony?

We have plenty of emails but they obviously contain personal details. Out of 300+ LAs there is email evidence of over 80 saying 0 places for the required year

Link?

Still drunk, Love?

once the child is without a school place then the la can be requested to activate the fair access protocol which will means they have to be allocated a place. Unless there are spare places la won’t allocate a place whilst the child is still attending an indepdent school they have to be without a place, it may not be the school of choice or local one. If distance is over the maximum then the la provide arrangements for transport.

www.lifeconnect24.co.uk/blog/top-15-hobby-ideas-for-older-people/

No there are many LAs saying 0 places. Evidence exists of whole LAs, not individual schools. Lots of parents offered taxis paid by LA as no places in nearby schools. How does that save the taxpayer money?

once the child is without a school place then the la can be requested to activate the fair access protocol which will means they have to be allocated a place. Unless there are spare places la won’t allocate a place whilst the child is still attending an indepdent school they have to be without a place, it may not be the school of choice or local one. If distance is over the maximum then the la provide arrangements for transport.

No but I’m sure there will be places if parents look properly. Focusing on only one school with zero flexibility isn’t going to give you a place if a school is oversubscribed. There will be other options.

I guess it’s easier to declare there are no places when you don’t get your place of choice mid year. There are places. Sailing so close to the wind that you can’t find an extra £2k to finish 2 terms if say you lost your job or had a big bill doesn’t illustrate prudent financial planning. It’s not really the fault of anybody else that parents need to move mid year. This has been in the cards for some time.

So it's fine for those kids to be out of education until Sept?