Editing Ampleforth College (section)

===Fee-fixing===
{{Main|Independent school fee fixing scandal}}
In September 2005, Ampleforth was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found by the [[Office of Fair Trading]] to be operating a fee-fixing cartel in breach of the Competition Act of 1998. All of the schools were ordered to abandon this practice, pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 each (with minor exceptions) and make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 |publisher=The Office of Fair Trading |title=OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement |date=21 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140402142426/http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 |archive-date=2 April 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/independent-schools-face-huge-fines-over-cartel-to-fix-fees-rcwcznjnvnt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912214704/http://www.pressmon.com/cgi-bin/press_view.cgi?id=991819|archive-date=12 September 2012|url-status=live|location=London|work=[[The Times]]|first=Tony|last=Halpin|title=Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees|url-access=subscription|date=10 November 2005}}</ref> Mrs Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that they were unaware that the law had changed, and that private schools had not known that they had become subject to competition law.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html|title=Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=1 March 2004|access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref>