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Gillian Keegan announces ‘landmark decision’ to lift faith-based admissions cap on free schools
May 01, 2024
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has announced plans to lift the notorious faith-based admissions cap on new free schools. Following lobbying from the Catholic Church, the Conservative Minister today announced a consultation about abolishing the cap that prevents free schools and academies from selecting more than half of pupils on grounds of religion. Introduced in 2010
‘Urgent pleas’ from Catholic leaders for UK government to lift faith-based admissions cap
December 19, 2023
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has met Catholic leaders amid urgent pleas from the Church to lift a highly contentious faith-based admissions cap on new free schools. Keegan, who was educated at Catholic schools, received a Church delegation to hear the case for scrapping the ban brought in under the coalition Government of former Tory Prime
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.
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