3 Jul 2023

Future of the country's most expensive schools remain in limbo

From Morning Report, 8:38 am on 3 July 2023

The future of the country's most expensive schools remains in limbo.

Enrolments have doubled at the three boarding schools for disabled children but remain below the numbers they are funded for.

A UN committee says the schools should be closed and the government says it is still thinking about what to do.

Our Education Correspondent John Gerritsen reports.