Comment: Let's not have a class war on schools

Third Sector, 5 September 2007

It appears that charities are allowed to be charities only for as long as their objects are politically fashionable.

Thanks to the Charities Act 2006, organisations must now meet the public benefit test to qualify for tax breaks. For schools, it looks as though this means educating the poor - last week Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the Charity Commission, told The Times that private schools are going to...

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