Boarding is booming, thanks to bursaries for poor pupils

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/boarding-is-booming-thanks-to-bursaries-for-poor-pupils-808154.html

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Saturday, 12 April 2008

'It gave me confidence ... the teachers were great': Becky Soltysiak, 21

At the age of 10, Becky Soltysiak was in imminent danger of being taken into care. Her mother was suffering depression and needed hospital treatment; her father was a transsexual.

But social services staff got her a place at an independent boarding school, subsidised by the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation.