Updated 8:19am 30 April 2012

School fees ‘forced up’

PARENTS who educate their children privately will face higher fees as schools are forced to fund more places for poor pupils to meet new charity guidelines, an education leader warns today.

David Lyscom, head of the Independent Schools Council (ISC) accused the Charity Commission of taking a “narrow” approach to new rules which say that charitable organisations must prove they exist for the wider “public benefit”.

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