Tag Archives: SWSF

Closure and redundancies after Steiner schools lose VAT exemption

Until January 2025, education and boarding provided by private schools were generally exempt from VAT, meaning that schools did not charge VAT on tuition fees. On 29th July 2024, the newly elected government announced that the exemption would be removed …

Free Schools(2)

Welcome to the second of a series of posts looking at Steiner Free School applications and the reasons as to why they shouldn’t and so far haven’t been successful.

Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) is the body coordinating Steiner education …

Free Schools(1)

Prior to moving home I had part written a lengthy post about the many Steiner schools applying (at that time) to become ‘Free Schools’ but the draft of that post was lost when my computer died. Rather than a re-write …