'Patently elitist': Labour blasts school admission rules

Current laws which allow up to a quarter of school places to held for students whose parents or grandparents were past pupils was described as concerning, offensive and discriminatory during pre-legislative scrutiny of a bill that seeks to abolish the practice.

Current laws which allow up to a quarter of school places to held for students whose parents or grandparents were past pupils was described as concerning, offensive and discriminatory during pre-legislative scrutiny of a bill that seeks to abolish the practice.

However, other stakeholders said schools were “like families”, and the criteria was important in upholding cohesion, values, and loyalties built up over generations.