Funding Watch: Buttle UK School Fees Programme
Neil Puffett
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Buttle UK helps vulnerable children find stable school places.
What is it?
Buttle UK's School Fees Programme aims to transform the lives of very vulnerable children who have health, emotional, social or family difficulties, by helping them find stable school places. The grant programme provides financial assistance to help children move to suitable schools including boarding schools and independent schools. The charity helps children and young people who are aged between 11 and 18, who are adopted, or cared for by grandparents, relatives or friends, are from single parent families, or have two carers but one is very severely incapacitated through illness or disability.
How much is available?
Funding is decided on a case-by-case basis. Applicants for funding are required to already have chosen a school. The charity must be satisfied that the facilities of the chosen school meet the requirements of the pupil and that the level of fees can realistically be met.
What will it fund?
Applications for support with boarding fees are considered where there is a strong case as to why a young person cannot, or should not, stay at home with a parent or carer. Applications for support with day fees are considered where the state education system has been unable to meet the young person's needs, and there is no alternative state school. Applications will not be successful where the sole grounds of the application are that the child or young person has a learning or developmental difficulty for which special facilities may be available at a fee- paying school.
When is the deadline?
Applications for the 2014/15 academic year are open from January 2014.
