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Boarding school 'offered advantages'
Posted on 18th December 2007
A successful businessman has told of how receiving funding to board at a private school offered him great advantages.
Colin Morrison, chief executive of ACP-Natmag Magazines, told the BBC that when he was seven years old, his family had experienced financial hardship but he had received funding for a space at a boarding school from the local education authority.
He said the experience taught him self-reliance, adding: "Boarding school suits a self-starter."
Mr Morrison chairs the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation which provides funding for disadvantaged children to attend private school.
He told the broadcaster that boarding school offers high levels of care as well as access to computers, gym equipment and swimming pools.
The Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation has called upon the government to provide "welfare boarding" for vulnerable children, claiming it would help provide stability to children currently in the care of their local authorities.
Additionally, it would encourage working couples to become foster parents, it claimed.
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