Thursday, September 30, 2004

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Call for rethink on private schools' charitable status

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Call for rethink on private schools' charitable status: "Call for rethink on private schools' charitable status

Tash Shifrin
Thursday September 30, 2004

The government should consider stripping private schools and hospitals of their charitable status, a parliamentary committee argues in report published today.
A joint committee of MPs and peers makes the call in its scrutinty report of the draft charities bill. The legislation will make 'public benefit' the cornerstone of a new definition of charity as part of a major overhaul of Britain's 400-year-old charity law."

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