SOME UK PRIVATE SCHOOLS CLOSING

'Financial pressures have already led to several high-profile closures including St Mary's Shaftesbury and Ashdown House, Boris Johnson's former prep school.

'In May 2020 the Times Educational Supplement forecast that as many as 30% of UK's private schools could face insolvency in the near future.'

 Daniel Radcliffe's old £21,000-a year Chelsea prep school reveals it will close due to shortage of pupils

Many other private schools are struggling to survive following the pandemic, cost of living crisis and, in some cases, sanctions against Russian oligarchs living in the UK.