For anyone who still thinks that access to selective state education is a level playing field.....

[curlew]

I have just read the latest OfSTED for my dd's grammar school.

There are no children in Year 7 who are eligible for FSM. None. Not one.

i am no tax expert but t'internet is a wonderful thing ....

www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/briefing-papers/SN05222/charitable-status-and-independent-schools

use of bursaries (and opening use of facilities to public etc). is all there to fulfil the criterion of "public benefit" in order to maintain charitable status, and hence keep charitable tax exemptions for fee income etc.

backed up to the hilt be the law and its vagaries

....there must be more than de minimis or token benefit for the poor, but that trustees of a charitable independent school should decide what was appropriate .....

turkeys voting for christmas

thanks

Here...perhaps things are balancing out gradually ....

Research by the Telegraph has shown that 11 out of 20 English members of the elite Russell Group want to increase admissions from state schools over the next five years.

This includes Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, King’s College London, the London School of Economics and Warwick.

One – University College London – has pledged to boost the number of places awarded to state-educated entrants by 10 per cent by 2016.