The councils need to find spaces for all children!!

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https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/surrey-runs-out-of-state-school-places-for-private-pupils-as-vat-raid-bites/?amp

I am relieved to see that the Surrey is also looking at options to expand class sizes and use transportation to take children to other areas. They really need to get their act together quickly.

all children has a right to state education.

The council will need to use the Fair Access Protocol to force the schools best able to cope to go over numbers

I’m surprised Surrey is the first to be in this situation - I was expecting it to be one of the London boroughs or Edinburgh (which was signalling issues a little while ago)

The headline figures of demographic decline and spare school places are often misleading. Most of the vacancies are in yrs 4/5 and below - this crunch has come in years 7 and above (where the bulge is still very much present).

She gave up work in order to home school her kids as a direct result of VAT.

They will do it, and it will be absolutely fine. Although whether all the children projected to move to state schools actually do so will be interesting to see.

Which was her choice! Every child is entitled to a state school place, she chose not to use it, and to homeschool instead.
That is absolutely her choice, but it is a choice all the same.

The number who have already left this term has already exceeded projected numbers for the whole academic year. More to follow. Add into that the number now not starting

@twistyizzy you keep making big statements but provide no evidence.

I can't provide evidence that has got names, addresses etc on!
I have access to info that isn't in public domain. I don't care whether you believe me or not, I don't have to prove anything to you but safe to say I've spent the last 18 months on this.

However many children enter the state sector is not really an issue, they will all be catered for.

I've seen a lot of different figures bandied around, ranging from numbers in private schools have dropped by 0.1% to 85% of private school parents are planning to move their children to state schools to the world ending tomorrow (the Telegraph naturally).

So great, whatever number actually move will be given spaces in state schools, as they should. The world will not end, it will settle in fine, and all the squawking will die down.

Except as you can see from the OP they aren't being.
Plus each child leaving Indy costs the state 7k per year to educate. Much more if they are SEN. Indy sector saves state over £4 billion per year.

The world won't end but it will cost the taxpayer more

Over how many years is that calculated- once a tax is implemented it’s implemented.
Thats because we have 14years of selfishness imbedded in the public- we need more taxes but not from me, we need more houses but not near me- yawn!

Nowhere in the article does it say that children are left without a place.

I can't see any such thing. It is December and classes for next September have not been decided.

Seriously, it will be fine. Calm yourself.

Just because you refuse to accept it doesn't mean it isn't true.

The practice of councils paying for children to go to private schools is not a new thing and is more prevalent than people realise.

1 woman telling another to calm herself is not a good look

You are correct. The irony however is pretty strong

Is that your real concern here?

I do not think so.

I am the taxpayer, and I don't begrudge any child a space to which they are fully entitled. But I am not prepared to enter into your agitation about having to either pay VAT on school fees or use the state system.

Children without a private school named on an EHCP?

I have no idea whether it is a woman or a man. Either way it was good advice.

Entirely predictable and going to get so much worse.
So many people assume private school families are billionaires and can easily find thousands and thousands of extra pounds, but most are just GPs, dentists and normal bog standard professionals.

This is an own goal and will cost the country millions and millions - even into the longer term that could have been used for something important like propping up the NHS or social care.

Id like the source of this info please. Only way this could happen is if the children in question had EHCP and were attending a special school

Why didn’t you cut down on your other expenses? I doubt you’ll be a better teacher than the wide variety of teachers at your child’s private school, teachers who were very likely to have been trained by the state in the state sector.