Schools: Independent Schools

Lord Dykes Excerpts

Thursday 16th January 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

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 (LD)]

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]

The noble Lord makes a very good point.