A Labour shadow minister has called for Scotland’s private schools to be nationalised, claiming they are “catering to elitist attitudes towards education”.
As The Sunday Times revealed last week, the charity regulator OSCR has advised the Scottish government against plans to strip independent schools of business rates relief, warning that it would place them under strain and affect communities which use their facilities.
But shadow Scotland Office minister Paul Sweeney said: “Not only should these private businesses catering to elitist attitudes towards education not be the privileged beneficiaries of tax breaks for perfunctory charity work, but all private schools should be brought, en masse, into the state sector.”
He said: “Ongoing inequalities in education entrench disadvantage. Those born into privilege are likely to remain privileged
