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Education Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Morris of Yardley (Labour) in the House of Lords on Monday, 24 October 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills on Education Bill.
I see that the Minister is trying to be helpful and I entirely accept what he said about the Secretary of State having powers to take action to ensure that a school's admission arrangements are fair. I accept that and I think that the Minister has made that point on a number of occasions. However, the problem arises as regards co-ordinating different schools with different oversubscription criteria. In a local authority area each school could be applying the admissions criteria fairly but a child could still be unfairly ignored by the system because of the way in which each of the separate rules apply to him. In that case, who has the power to go in and sort it out?

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Reference

731 c644 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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