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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

London headteacher says 'private school families' facing higher fees looking for places at her state school

A prominent London headteacher has told how “private school families” facing higher fees due to the imposition of VAT on them are coming to look at her state school for the first time.

Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher at Michaela Community School in Wembley, said it was a “very strange” development as it had “never happened before”.

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