{"id":92915,"date":"2026-08-15T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92915"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:27:22","slug":"prep-schools-could-vanish-within-five-years-after-labour-vat-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/15\/prep-schools-could-vanish-within-five-years-after-labour-vat-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep schools could vanish within five years after Labour VAT raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/08\/19\/110517243-16038603-image-a-4_1786215123396.jpg\" alt=\"The historic Sompting Abbotts has been educating pupils since George V was on the throne\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most standalone prep schools will vanish in the next five years as a result of\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/tax\/news\/figures-full-effect-labour-cruel-private-school-tax-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Labour\u2019s VAT raid<\/a>, one of the country\u2019s most senior school leaders has claimed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/prep-schools-could-vanish-within-five-years-after-labour-vat-raid\/ar-AA2a9LBA?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a8057e8ff54442292508127b230ca38&ei=83\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Most standalone prep schools will vanish in the next five years as a result of\u00a0Labour\u2019s VAT raid, one of the country\u2019s most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/UK-Labour-party.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92916,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92915\/revisions\/92916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}