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Half of children in Kensington and Chelsea attend private school
Posted on 18th July 2007
Some 47.2 per cent of all five to 15-year-olds in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea attend private school, figures have revealed.
Figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) show that the proportion of privately educated pupils in the UK capital, at ten per cent, is almost twice that of the national average (6.4 per cent), the Daily Mail reports.
Other boroughs with high numbers of children in private education included Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth and Westminster.
Parent Organisation director Andy Hibberd said: "All the time there is the option of private education, those who can afford it will and perhaps should take it because all the time these children are in private education they are not a burden on the state."
Earlier this month, the DCSF announced that a National Council for Educational Excellence had been set up in order to advise the government on strategy and measures "to achieve world-class education".