‘Threats’ may force private schools to end charity status - Times Online

‘Threats’ may force private schools to end charity status - Times Online: "SOME independent schools may voluntarily give up charitable status to escape the threat of “hostile voices” and “sabre-rattling” by regulators at the Charity Commission.

Schools exploring the move believe it would have only a limited impact on their finances and would free them from rules that could prove intrusive and bureaucratic.

From next year the presumption that all education is charitable and so can enjoy tax breaks will end. Instead, schools will have to prove they provide a “public benefit”, for example, access for poor families."