Edstart Schools has been granted planning permission by Bolton Council to convert a building into a new independent special school for 35 children in Bolton.

A number of independent schools are contemplating “differential pricing” – charging higher fees for overseas pupils to offset Labour’s 20% charge on school fees for domestic parents.

Ballard School in New Milton, Hampshire has assured parents that it will cover 100% of the VAT charge from January.

Union members working at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Tring, Hertfordshire have voted to strike in the autumn

Eaton Square Senior School has won an industrial tribunal case brought by a former maths teacher who was sacked after sending “deeply concerning” messages to a 14-year-old pupil.

Independent school Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire has announced it is opening an international school in the US

PACT Educational Trust has put the former Oakwood School in Croydon on the market at a guide price of £6 million.

Shrewsbury School has applied to Shropshire Council for permission for an extension and internal alterations to its existing boarding facilities for pupils.

33% of the Team GB squad at the Paris Olympics were educated at a private secondary school.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced in the Commons that 20% VAT will be levied on independent school fees from January.

A total of five UK independent schools were purchased by Chinese investors last year, according to a report compiled by Venture Education.

Clongowes Wood College has embarked on an advertising campaign in the UK to attract parents concerned about Labour’s plans to add VAT to school fees.

Independent primary school Catch22 Include Wales in Newport has been awarded the second worst rating for food hygiene.

Documents filed at the High Court indicate that Harrow School received hundreds of thousands of pounds from companies that the National Crime Agency believes were part of a money laundering network.

34% of all independent schools in England and Wales have either withdrawn, or plan to withdraw, from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, according to analysis of FOI data.

Prior Park College has suspended its fees in advance scheme until “the detail of how VAT will be imposed is known”.

The Charity Commission has found “significant weaknesses” in the safeguarding, governance and management of the trusts responsible for the running of Ampleforth College and Ampleforth Abbey.

The new Labour government’s imposition of VAT on independent school fees will be "pushed through quickly", Scottish secretary Ian Murray has said.

Cavendish Education has purchased the former Belmont School at Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking, which was put on the market in March with a guide price of £7 million.

An analysis of the independent and SEND schools markets so far this year has been published by business property advisor Christie & Co.

The new Labour government is considering exempting military families from plans to impose VAT on independent school fees.

The whole of Bolton School has taken part in a series of sponsored walks to help build a secondary school in Africa.

Reigate Grammar School in Surrey is setting up overseas campuses in Saudi Arabia to provide a revenue stream to support the school’s bursary programme.

Eton College is banning new pupils from bringing smartphones into school from this September.

The Old Palace of John Whitgift Pre-school & Preparatory School in Croydon, London has been put up for sale with a guide price of £7.5 million for the freehold.

Crossbench peer and KC Lord Pannick has said that the Labour Party’s plans to impose VAT on private school fees is likely to breach human rights law.

Eagle House School in Sandhurst, Berkshire is changing its name to Wellington College Prep with effect from September.

The driver of a 3.5 tonne Land Rover that crashed into Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon last July killing two girls suffered an epileptic seizure and will not face prosecution.

A think tank is advising Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson to facilitate “routes to conversion” into the state sector.

VAT will not be imposed on private school fees this year should Labour win the general election on 4 July.

Sir William Perkins’s School, an independent day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Chertsey, Surrey, has announced it will admit boys from September 2026.

39% of UK parents will ‘definitely’ or likely have to withdraw their children from private schooling should Labour win the next election.

Parents are remortgaging their homes to raise funds for school fees in anticipation of increases following a new Labour government imposing 20% VAT.

Northamptonshire police are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations of historic sexual and physical abuse at Maidwell Hall School.

The shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry has stated that the VAT raised from taxing private school fees will be used to pay for breakfasts for children attending state schools.

The Labour Party will exempt state boarding schools from its plans to tax independent school fees, following pressure from the State Boarding Forum.

Alton School in Hampshire has advised its pupils’ parents that the school will close in the summer.

David Allison of EduPartners, an education consultancy company, has purchased Avondale Preparatory School in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Independent schools company Inspired Learning Group has agreed a refinancing deal with Allica Bank to help fund its future growth.

Sir Kier Starmer said he would roll out Labour’s plan to impose VAT on independent school fees “straight away” if the party wins the General Election.

Research indicates that the independent school sector could be on the verge of a staffing crisis.

Treasury analysis has analysed the situation should the Labour Party’s school fees VAT policy forced pupils out of private schools and into state education.

The Independent Schools Council has published its annual census, which canvassed its 1,411 member school in January.

Parents are spreading the cost of private school as fees continue to rise, according to data from finance company Premium Credit.

Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School in Manningham, Bradford has been rated Inadequate after Ofsted ruled the school treated girls differently from boys.

Labour’s plans to impose VAT on independent school fees could include a tax on additional school services such as meals, sports tours, music lessons and trips.

Alleyn's School in Dulwich, South London, has launched an ‘artificial intelligence constitution’ to guide and protect pupils using artificial intelligence.

Abingdon and Abingdon Prep School in Oxford have announced that they are both to go co-educational.

Three independent girls’ schools in Hertfordshire are merging in September: St Albans High School for girls (STAHS), STAHS Prep and Stormont School, an independent girls’ prep school in Potters Bar.

VAT on independent school fees would place a significant burden on the state sector and disrupt the education of thousands of pupils, especially those with additional support needs

Figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) reveal that enrolments at independent schools this academic year have fallen by 2.7%, the largest annual drop since the ISC began collecting data.

Bolton School extended its annual Football Festival for local primary schools this year by adding an extra evening for girls to play.

A new Labour government will impose VAT on boarding as well as independent school fees should it be elected.

A poll of 12 independent schools has revealed annual increases for the academic year beginning in September range from 3.8% to 8%, with an average rise of 5.5%,

Independent boarding school for girls, Downe House, is hosting a high-profile academic conference on Thursday 13 June.

Hemdean House School in Reading has announced it will close on 12 July after 165 years as a school.

The principal at Tring Park, an independent school for performing arts, says it isn’t just privileged families that will be affected by rising costs caused by Labour's VAT policy.

Inspired Learning Group has acquired Shebbear College in north Devon from Methodist Independent Schools Trust.

A poll has found that 26% of parents would remove their children from private school if 20% VAT is added to fees.

A Cambridge University scheme designed to help applicants from underrepresented backgrounds such as those “from the lowest socioeconomic groups” may have included children attending feepaying schools,

Independent schools are offering payments or higher salaries to teaching staff in return for their agreement to withdraw from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

Law firms have warned that independent schools are “being forced” to plan for potential redundancies because of the Labour Party’s tax plans should it win the general election.

The former Ursuline Preparatory School in Wimbledon, Southwest London, has been put on the market, with a guide price of offers in excess of £7 million.

Gordonstoun School in Elgin, Moray has announced plans to invest around £15million on facilities, including a solar farm and a new base for its coastguard service.

Aurora Eccles School in Quidenham, Norfolk, has submitted plans for 72 new overnight rooms.

The independent Lewis Charlton Learning Centre in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, has received a second Ofsted ruling of Inadequate for the second year in succession.

Bickley Park School, an independent preparatory school for boys, is to become co-educational.

The Independent Schools Inspectorate has criticised The Gregg Preparatory School in Southampton over safeguarding procedures following a visit.

95% of independent school leaders expect to increase fees as a result of Labour's tax plans, according to research carried out Censuswide for The Telegraph.

Bromley High School, a girls' independent school located in Bickley, Greater London, announced it is launching an "innovative middle school".

Teachers at Abbey Gate College are going on strike tomorrow following governors’ plans to take them out of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

Epsom College in Surrey and Prior Park College in Bath have signed up for a ‘Menstrual Cycle Support for Teens’ initiative.

Inspired Learning Group has acquired Derby Grammar School, a selective co-educational independent school for children aged from four to 18.

As a response to Labour’s plans to tax school fees, independent schools are looking further afield to counter the expected drop in UK admissions.

Plans by the Labour Party to impose VAT on independent school fees could lead to unforeseen consequences, according to analysis by the Adam Smith Institute think tank.

The chief executive of the Independent Schools’ Bursars Association has called on Labour to publish specific details of its VAT plans.

Unscrupulous drug dealers have been promoting their ‘high quality’ cannabis for sale via posters on lampposts and trees around Highgate School in north London.

Teachers at The Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff, went on strike last Thursday in a dispute over pay and pensions, and are planning more industrial action this week.

The University of Cambridge will no longer set targets for the proportion of state and independent school pupils it admits to undergraduate degree courses,

The former Belmont School at Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking, Surrey, which closed at the end of last year, has been put on the market with an asking price of £7 million.

Independent education group Wishford Education has acquired Rupert House School in Henley, a nursery and prep school for children aged three to11 years.

Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School is to merge Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ to create a single, co-educational senior school from September next year.

Most people think it is right for children to attend independent schools and don’t want them to be abolished, a poll reveals.

Drive Preparatory School in Hove has been downgraded to Inadequate following an inspection in November.

Eton College and its state school trust partner Star Academies have published their first joint research report, which focuses on high achievers failing to meet their potential.

Labour’s shadow education minister Helen Hayes has said that the party will not exempt all schools teaching children with special educational needs and disabilities from its VAT plans.

Building works at the new Bedford Greenacre Independent School site at Manton Heights are progressing, following the completion of a multimillion-pound funding deal earlier this month.

St Michael’s School in Bryn, Carmarthenshire, has been named The Telegraph’s best value for money independent school for 2024.

Francis Holland Schools Trust is opening Francis Holland Preparatory School in Chelsea.

A debate yesterday in the House of Commons drew criticism from Conservative members frustrated at Labour’s tax plans for independent school fees.

The prospect of a Labour government levying VAT to school fees could lead to independent schools establishing more satellite schools in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

A plan to save Castle School in Haverfordwest from closure has failed.

ISC's chief executive Julie Robinson says Labour's plans to levy VAT on school fees could threaten the education of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Newcastle High School for Girls is inviting additional applications for entry into Year 9 after deciding to expand.

The focus on the Labour party’s taxation plans for the independent school sector should it win is increasing as the general election looms closer.

A law firm is urging former pupils abused at Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate to get in touch to help them launch compensation claims.

Staff at Wellow House School in Nottinghamshire shared concerns about the school’s safeguarding in emails.

Parents of pupils attending Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London are attempting to stop Nigel Farage from giving a speech at the school.

Philip Britton, head of foundation at Bolton School, has been appointed as the 2025-26 chair of the HMC.

Independent day and boarding school Scarborough College has begun a cricket exchange programme with a top New Zealand school.