Sir Keir Starmer insisted that Labour’s plan to levy VAT on personal faculty charges is critical to fund state faculties, as he responded to considerations that it didn’t exempt tens of 1000’s of kids with studying difficulties.
Talking on LBC on Tuesday, Starmer stated his celebration had exempted kids with an training, well being and care plan, and denied he had imposed a “supertax” on aspirational households.
Solely 7,000 of 103,000 pupils with particular instructional wants have an EHC, in keeping with the Impartial Colleges Council.
“I do perceive that many mother and father work laborious, and save laborious to ship their kids to personal faculties as a result of they’ve actual aspirations for them,” stated Starmer. “However all mother and father have aspirations for his or her kids, together with mother and father who ship them to a state faculty.”
