If you’re charged VAT will you remove your child from their private school? I’m v stressed!

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We won’t be able to pay the increase. Only hope is asking grandparents for the shortfall which we don’t want to do. Anyone else in a similar boat? Do you think it will literally be a 20% increase on fees or will schools absorb some of it? Our school has said they will address the matter ‘if and when’ it applies.

They go to a super selective London Grammar - nothing like a state school anyone getting angry at private school parents would recognise.

I really think if you add up all the kids in super selective Grammar schools with SEN and FSM you would get nowhere near what the private school sector subsidises.

Privilege bubble comment award.

I have, we have one for my son! It's gonna be less than £8k a term! A 121 hourly session once a week costs us about £160 a month and supplements the state schooling for him. Its an option if its purely the academics that concern OP

Generally on super selective grammars those who access them know how competitive they are. For good reason.

Fortunately, we're in the position to pay so it doesn't change our plans although we're a year off from our DC starting school. I'd rather she is in a school with great amenities, amazing ratios and potential for better educational outcomes than send her to a substandard state school with large classes and less amenities.

Ask the thousands of kids on full bursaries if they feel their school has been charitable.

She's also a multiple-property landlord but complains about the housing crisis! All these people are such cliches!

Despite still having 2-3 x the state school funding. It’s laughable.

Fewer.

Someone answering OP’s question, and explaining their own circumstances.

Another question - can labour just decide to do this if they get elected? Won’t they need to try and change the legislation and so it’ll have to go through the House of Lords who are probably very unlikely to allow the policy to go ahead??

Does it not occur to you that this may be exactly why Oxbridge have been trying to level up to address the inequality of private school pupils proportionally taking more places? and why many people are supportive of policies such as proposals such as private schools paying VAT 🤔

Abolish them all and make education fair for all. Finland do it

This is factually incorrect. Finland have not banned private schools. What they do have is a system where private schools are not allowed to profit from the basic element of education. The state funds that part. The state subsidises the Finnish private schools.

That was a really lovely and uplifting read - just what I needed in the middle of all the vitriol

Cambridge have scrapped their state school admission targets this year, presumably because they’ve realised that this blunt tool does not necessarily mean they attract the best calibre of students.

Actually I imagine that if they are paying for private school and sacrificing those things already then buying a house or even renting to get their child into the best school is probably their top priority.

It is the Daily Mail. Bound to be accurate. I am sure when surveyed all the private school parents were truthful about their ability to pay the 20% 😜

HoL can't stop manifesto legislation. It's why they could block Rwanda.

I'd be interested to read how many children really benefit from bursaries, the general consensus is that it's not many - however that may be a myth!

Sorry but I agree with the poster calling out massive privilege - that comment was just...well...

we spend nearly £200K per quarter on electricity alone

No you don't.

You also though the LA was giving you £5k per pupil per term.

And how many super selective grammar schools leapfrog the real state kids?

And how many of their parents have multi-million pound homes with pools and went to private schools themselves and have been hoarding wealth for decades?

Think outside the tiny box Labour are giving you people!

Nope, just stating that it is quite narrow minded to have such a narrow perspective.

Not this again. Charitable status and the VAT position are entirely separate. The Labour Party have scrapped plans to change the charitable status position of private schools. Around half of private schools aren’t registered charities anyway.

Same here I’ll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. I actually think they should subsidise private schools like they do in other countries to make it more affordable. At least then more people have a choice. But it comes down to a culture war on here.. Not sure why everybody on here thinks the local state school is always good fit for their child!