🔴 Insiders say local authorities are already receiving applications for Education Health and Care plans from parents who can no longer afford private school fees 🖋️ Connie Dimsdale reports 🔗 trib.al/ySNIGy4

This is a really dire policy. What are they THINKING? Is this what will happen to private nurseries eventually?

So. Let me get this right. Adults in the corporate world do NOT pay VAT on their advanced learning/training/call it what you like, I'll go with adult education - indeed they can claim EXPENSES on it?? But children, they ARE now subjected to VAT on theirs? Bridget Phillipson

READ THIS👇Bridget Phillipson politicshome.com/thehouse/artic… The SOS hasn’t visited independent schools or met the parents who rely on them. Unlike York's Labour MP 💙Rachael Maskell MP, who discovered "parents remortgaging homes & working 3 minimum-wage jobs" just to give their child an

Headteachers & Local authorities are being told that 1) there will be no NEW funding into education 2) that breakfast clubs will need to be paid out of existing budgets 3) that the threshold to obtain an EHCP for SEN will be higher I thought Education VAT was going to cover it?

The i Paper Connie Dimsdale Ending talented children’s dreams - Farewell to performing arts bursaries , as a direct result of #TaxingEducation 😢 Dame Arlene Phillips Guildhall School of Music & Drama Royal Ballet and Opera Royal Ballet School Education Not Taxation

HR workers currently outnumber NHS doctors by around three to one, with the number in the sector rising 42pc between 2011 and 2021. A shadow HR empire now runs Britain, writes Lucy Barton – and it’s only getting bigger. freespeechunion.org/a-shadow-hr-em…

For or against private school-VAT, it doesn't really matter. Just don't forget who really pays the price of a policy like this - children. (10/10) 🧵🔚

The funding isn’t enough. That’s fine. Be transparent about it please! Let’s just have some honesty. It’s a SUBSIDY! Bridget Phillipson Early Years Alliance NDNA Mumsnet @PregnantScrewed Early Education and Childcare Coalition Keir Starmer

Bridget Phillipson Labour has waged war on brilliant schools for decades. First to go were grammar schools, then fast-tracked access to tertiary education, now private schools are to be taxed out of existence, and Latin in state schools ended - in the middle of the school year.

At the Alliance, we're calling on the government to exempt the early years sector from April's NI changes or commit to funding the rises in full. For more detail and our full reaction, visit: bit.ly/3CjNcRb 7/7

Why is this state school in Reading facing an ‘influx’ of enquiries and ‘high demand for tours’ that it’s hosting a special open morning just for in-year transfers? Bridget Phillipson—any thoughts? Matt Rodda—concerns? Especially given your detailed report on the harms of in-year

Just had a letter arrive from my MP……… ‘Independent school parents need their voices to be heard, more than MP’s need embossed stationary’ That’s how this works isn’t it Bridget Phillipson 🤔🤔

Terrifying re UK tax changes. ‘This is frightening... Here’s a list of the April 6 tax changes to underline just how fierce the tax storm is going to be. From April 6, the rate of employers’ National Insurance contributions will be increased from 13.8pc to 15pc, and the

I really don’t understand stamp duty. What do you MEAN you want to tax me for buying a house with my savings generated from my salary which has already BEEN taxed. 🤔

Just imagine the outcry if 28% of schools indicated that they might close next year!

Early Years Voice is raising £500000 to support the Early Years Voice campaign. Early Years Equality has joined to challenge the government. Check out their JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

youtu.be/far9WX1tDzo?si… In today’s i paper, Bridget Phillipson’s allies claim the backlash she gets is because people can’t handle being educated on education by a working-class, state-educated woman. Let’s set the record straight: I’m state-educated too. That’s not the issue.

Thanks Ana Boulter for highlighting the plight of EY settings! youtube.com/watch?v=dp91um… Early Education and Childcare Coalition Early Years Alliance NDNA David Granger The Guardian Netmums Mumsnet BBC Woman's Hour Early Years Voice branwen jeffreys

Article on charities & their big CEO salaries. I think every registered charity ought to publish on all advertising how much of every £ given finds its way to the actual thing we give for. Then we can choose if we spend on those most efficient & productive telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/1…