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VAT will now apply to school fees - what do schools do first?
30 Oct 20241 January 2025 is only seven working weeks away. This is a big change for schools and our advice remains that your first step should be to prepare a VAT implementation plan.
Fees in Advance schemes - what is the update?
30 Oct 2024The law is changing. VAT will apply to school fees from 1 January 2025. But what about fees that were prepaid before 29 July 2024 under Fees in Advance schemes?
Protecting the interest of students
09 Oct 2024The Office for Students has published consumer rights case reports after the referral of three higher education providers to National Trading Standards over concerns of student contract clauses breaching Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. a
The new reasonable steps duty
09 Oct 2024On 26 October 2024, the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 introduces new sections 40A and 124A into the Equality Act 2010 (EqA).
Education Policy update for Academies and Maintained Schools
25 Sept 2024The Government started the new school year with an announcement about changes to the Ofsted grading system. From 2 September 2024 all schools in England will no longer receive Ofsted single headline grades.
Mergers and acquisitions - looking back and into the year ahead
19 Sept 2024With a year of strategic challenges and opportunities ahead, we thought it might provide interesting insight to summarise merger and acquisition activity from the 2023/24 Academic Year and the trends emerging for the year ahead.
