Analysis: Rising stakes over public benefit

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 21 May 2008

The new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council has used one of his first public appearances to attack the Charities Act 2006 and its effect on independent schools.

Barely a week after being appointed, Chris Parry fired a broadside at the act and the Charity Commission guidance resulting from it, Fee-Charging and Public Benefit, during a meeting of the Commons select committee on education. The former admiral said that the act had heightened tensions in the independent sector...

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