Write to Leather, schools urged

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 14 May 2008

The new head of the Independent Schools Council is encouraging charitable independent schools to write to the chair of the Charity Commission, Dame Suzi Leather, to defend their charitable status.

Rear Admiral Chris Parry, who was appointed chief executive of the council two weeks ago, said the law was "very explicit" about how public benefit was defined and that schools were meeting the legal definition. "It is not so much the new Charities Act that presents a threat to us,...

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