Private schools have means to help special needs pupils hit by VAT – Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that private schools ‘pleading poverty’ will have to ‘cut your cloth in the same way that state schools have had to do’ (Leon Neal/PA) - (PA Wire)

Private schools “have the means” to help children with special educational needs at risk of being priced out by plans to apply VAT to fees, the Health Secretary has said.

From January, the Government plans to remove the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools to enable funding for 6,500 new teachers in state schools.