Schools: Independent Schools Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Independent Schools

Lord Dykes Excerpts
Thursday 16th January 2014

(10 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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They come from the subsidy that independent schools give on fees that would otherwise be paid by parents, which they find from their own resources or from charitable raising activities.

Lord Dykes Portrait Lord Dykes (LD)
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Does my noble friend agree that, if children from poorer families go to rather grand private schools, they can sometimes have a rather rough time when they first arrive and so on? What measures can the Government encourage those schools to take to make it socially easier for them to integrate?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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The noble Lord makes a very good point.