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The SWSF is the membership organisation for all the Steiner schools and independent Steiner Early Years settings in the UK and Ireland.

Our aims are:

  • to safeguard the ethos and identity of Steiner Waldorf education.
  • to support our member schools in their efforts to provide a high quality and distinctive education.
  • to represent the interests of Steiner education in the wider educational, academic, social and political context.

Steiner schools form the largest group of independent non-denominational private schools in the world. The first one opened in Germany in 1919, the first in the UK in 1925. There are currently over 1,000 Steiner schools worldwide and 2,000 Early Years settings in a total of 60 different countries, 35 in the UK. Steiner education is state funded in most European countries as well as in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. In the UK there is currently one state-funded school, the rest are privately funded but aspire to make their education available to as wide a community as possible.

Our Latest News

Below is a selection of our latest news items:-

To view all of our news including our full archives dating back to 2005 please visit our SWSF News area.