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Bishops fight to scrap cap on faith-based admissions to Catholic schools
August 10, 2023
Senior bishops have added their weight to a campaign to scrap a notorious cap on faith-based admissions to new Catholic schools. In 2010 the Coalition Government of ex-Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron introduced the cap to ensure that half of all pupils and students attending newly-built faith schools did not belong to that particular faith.
Bishop calls on government to keep Catholic schools promise
June 23, 2017
The Conservative pledge to remove the faith admissions cap on new schools was omitted from the Queen's Speech
May to lift admissions bar that stops Church from opening new free schools
September 09, 2016
The Government is to remove limits on faith-based selection, paving the way for new Catholic schools
Bishops’ agency ‘disappointed’ by faith cap for free schools
September 03, 2015
Catholic Church still effectively blocked from opening free schools thanks to admissions' cap
Catholics had a true friend in Michael Gove
July 17, 2014
The outgoing Education Secretary wanted to revitalise the Catholic school system, but he only met heel-dragging and indifference
Bishops urge Gove to drop admissions cap for new academies
November 15, 2013
English and Welsh bishops agree to 'resist any pressure' to establish such schools
Gove: I won’t relax rules on Catholic free schools
July 26, 2012
Education secretary praises role of Catholic Church in education
Newman would have loved our new free school
September 07, 2011
The cardinal would have understood the need to reform our education system
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