Parents Fight Governors to Save School Hit by VAT Raid
27th March 2026
Parents are fighting governors to save an all-girls private school in Cheshire’s Premier League footballer enclave.
They were told on Feb 24 that the £20,000-a-year Alderley Edge School for Girls, which currently has 330 students aged from two to 18, would close at the end of the academic year.
Rachel Reeves’s 20 per cent VAT on private school fees, introduced in January last year, has led to increased fees, falling pupil numbers and many school closures.