The current rules give a 10% discount on the child to adult member £5k entrance fee: so if you pay a full child membership for 10 years there’s no entrance fee. Parents who chose not to pay child membership fees just pay later – when they pay the ‘full’ child to adult £5k membership entrance fee. So the current system rewards those who pay now, later – which I think makes sense. Many families are juggling tight budgets and, as long as the rules allow it, they can chose.
