Labour MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell, asked for a meeting with the department over a private school in her constituency, the Steiner School, which she she could face closure due to the policy.
"(It) enables many children to access school who have anxiety or otherwise wouldn’t be in education," she said.
York Steiner School is one of 27 Waldorf Steiner schools in the UK and Ireland, and 1,100 worldwide. The York school is one of the largest and was built by its community of parents in 1984, when it moved into the site of the then closing Danesmead Secondary School by Fulford Cross.
From January, the Government plans to remove the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools to enable funding for 6,500 new teachers in state schools.
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