Private schools 'must do more' to justify charitable status

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 29 May 2007

The debate over the charitable status of private schools has been reopened by two candidates for the Labour Party deputy leadership.

Education secretary Alan Johnson, who is favourite to succeed John Prescott, said at the weekend that private schools would have to do more than "lend out their playing fields" to justify the estimated £100m a year in tax breaks they get as a result of their charitable status. "It's about...

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