Oxfordshire calls for academy admissions reform

From the Guardian: 'Academies can turn pupils away even when they have surplus capacity, according to Oxfordshire county council (Conservative)... the policy potentially puts at risk the option for parents to send their children to a "good, local school" and wants such admission freedoms to be fettered.'

The view was expressed in a leaked letter which the Guardian says was also signed by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. The letter says: The scenario described is theoretical, but was triggered by just such a sequence of events in relation to an Oxfordshire academy.'

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