PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Boarding School Allowance under Review
View Single Post
Old 1st Sep 2006, 07:47
  #31 (permalink)  
cockneyrock
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 42
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
People are getting very emotive over this subject and arguably rightly so, however, lets remember that the existing system allows serving personnel to buy their own home, put this kids into a local boarding school (or vice versa) and then, after one year, bring their kids out and draw CEA (Day) or day school allowance for the remainder of their kids school life. No need to move the kids due to posting (serving partner lives away and probably bean steals to boot) and no need to put kids back into boarding as they will living with the non-serving partner in their privately owned home.

If the review of the boarding school allowance removes this option, then I have no particular problem with the review. What the review mustn't do is remove the allowance altogether otherwise some children’s education will be severely compromised (egg the Scotland to England example given above).
cockneyrock is offline