Parents face paying £27k in school fees

Parents could face paying almost £27,000 a year to send their child to an independent school in Scotland, it has been reported.

It has this week been revealed the most expensive independent school in Scotland for senior school day pupils has increased its fees by nearly 5 per cent.

It will now cost parents £26.790 a year to send their child to Fettes College, in Edinburgh.

Boarding fees at the school, where former prime minister Tony Blair attended, are more than £33,000 a year.

And as parents of children at independent schools gear up for the new term this week, a survey shows independent school fees will increase by an average of 3.3 per cent in 201718. The cost to families whose children attend independent schools has soared by 27 per cent in the last seven years.

Parents have seen fees rocket from £11,410 in 2010-11 to its current figure of £14,574.

This month the consumer price index was running at 2.6 per cent.

The retail price index jumped to 3.6 per cent.