Change school on bursary

[onepennyshort]

Hi all, I wonder if any of you had any experience in changing your DC school whilst on a bursary and how difficult/easy have you found the process.
I was able to send my both my children to an independent school with a significant bursary 6 years ago and everything was fine up until 18 months ago when things started to be not quite right and brought a lot of frustration (although their grades are good and they still work hard).
I started to enquire for admissions in other independent schools (I am not not considering state schools as it worth a try anyway), and going through the admission/bursary processes as we speak - however a couple of schools already told me that their Trustees are not inclined to award bursaries to children already attending an independent school on funding, even declining assessing the children on their individual abilities. The change would be for main entry years, so new chapters.
I partially understand where they come from, but I don't get why this should play totally at their disadvantage. On the contrary should be a testament of their humble background as our finances gets thoroughly checked every year to confirm the level of our bursary.
I wonder if any of you had a similar situation you are able to share.
Many thanks.

Can you deal with the frustration and improve things without moving? I know it’s not how it is but it might come across that you don’t appreciate how much they’ve been given even if you do. Also there may be children applying who haven’t benefited at all from a bursary before who may take priority I would guess.
I’m afraid the only situation I know isn’t the same as the current school has said the child has to move to a more specialist school, which is eligible for state funding I think . So it’s a) beyond their control and b) has special funding rather than a bursary

I think bursaries are there for dc who would not otherwise be able to access private education, so I can see why they wouldn't consider a dc who was already accessing private education elsewhere.

Well they want to give assistance to kids who they believe will benefit from the system, and if it hasn’t worked out where you are, there’s going to be a higher chance it won’t work at the new place.

They will be questioning why you want to move basically. If you are going to be a challenging parent, they’d rather you were also lining their pockets - it’s a business, so fair enough.

I’d focus on changing things where you are.

Might there be a bit of an unwritten rule among the schools not to poach students who have been supported?

It’s strange to think that your current bursary meaning that your finances have been checked is any relevance at all! All bursars will have a process for reviewing finances, which they do anyway.