Independent schools 'will all pass public benefit test'

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 4 July 2008

All charitable private schools will pass the Charity Commission's new public benefit test, according to the chair of the Independent Schools Council.

Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas was speaking at the Public Administration Select Committee hearing on education and public benefit on 2 July. "Most of our schools are carrying out far more than the bare education of children," she said. "They are good participants in the broader community." However, she admitted that...