Commissioners free to take part in schools debate

By Stephen Cook, Third Sector, 12 September 2007

The Charity Commission has decided that none of its board members should withdraw from decisions on the public benefit of private schools on the grounds that they went to private schools themselves.

The decision is based on legal advice that also led to the decision that Dame Suzi Leather, the commission chair, will play no part in such decisions because one of her children goes to a private school. She and five other commissioners were privately educated, and three went to state...

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