Fair Admissions

The Fair Admissions Campaign wants all state-funded schools in England and Wales to be open equally to all children, without regard to religion or belief.

[Crispin Blunt @CrispinBlunt]

With the government's argument against piecemeal reform collapsing after allowing piecemeal reform this summer and the Church of England now confirming they are not opposed to #humanist marriages, it's high time for Scottish & Northern Irish freedom to spread to England & Wales.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

All any parent wants is for fair & equal access to their local schools. Religious discrimination in school admissions does not deliver that.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

For every 1% rise in secondary places subject to religious selection, there is a 4.2% rise in parents missing out on their preferred school.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

New research: religious selection 'significantly reduces' proportion of parents offered first choice school: https://t.co/lv5BYLLVlN

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Religious selection by schools fails children, burdens parents, & entrenches segregation in our society. Well done @LibDems for opposing it.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Important move by the @LibDems - their policy is now to end religious selection in state school admission altogether https://t.co/Q7SdZeZgmO

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Religious selection only permitted by exemption in Equality Act. If the law protects anyone from discrimination, shouldn't it be children?

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

'Faiths schools that religiously select are not better, as is often claimed. Rather, they're just less charitable'.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

'Religious selection is a stain on our education system'. Our piece on the @suttontrust report today. https://t.co/gbMZ78Jslb

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Here's an idea. Why don't we stop allowing schools to discriminate against children on the basis of religion and, by extension, wealth.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Time for Govt to start listening. Religious selection stunts social mobility & disadvantages poorer children. We need less of it, not more. https://t.co/3iPkfTiGXZ

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

Faith schools are among the most socially selective of top comp. schools, three times more than non-faith schools https://t.co/bfblauicg2

[Humanists UK @Humanists_UK]

New @PopulusPolls poll from BHA/Accord finds overwhelming public opposition to ANY religious selection in schools https://t.co/XAF9wEAJMs

[Tes magazine @tes]

Relaxing admissions for faith free schools could result in the 'ghettoisation of education', warns @jimpknight https://t.co/0VuooDwppN

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

All schools, whether religious or not, should be inclusive of and open to all. Religiously discriminating against children is simply wrong.

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

The Govt's proposals for a new generation of 100% religiously selective schools are a disaster for integration https://t.co/JIILxnXvHe

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

Religious selection is major source of socioeconomic disadvantage. If aim be honest & not use religion as mask
https://t.co/in001ZZ90Q

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

600 march in Dublin against religious selection by schools. Wishing @edu_equal well in campaign 2 end the practice https://t.co/0wAmctmRUt

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

New @suttontrust report urges limits to religious selection in faith school admissions to help the disadvantaged:
https://t.co/T0C890s47c

[Fair Admissions @FairAdmissions]

.@Melissa_Benn has written to Nicky Morgan about the ban on on civil society complaints on faith school admissions https://t.co/dJNBwSHEba

[Comprehensive Future @comp_future]

Chair Melissa Benn writes to Nicky Morgan on restricting rights to object to adjudicator.
https://t.co/10PIX14hVL