Hello,
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Education Governance and Leadership have been in touch with Mumsnet.
They'll shortly be meeting to debate the key ideas of 'Schools that Work for Everyone', a Department for Education consultation paper. (The DfE have responsibility for schools in England only.) The consultation is ongoing, so feel free to make your contribution via the online survey on this page.
The Department for Education say:
"We’re consulting on proposals to create more good school places. The proposals include:
· expecting independent schools to support existing or open new state schools, or offer funded places to children whose families can’t afford to pay fees;
· asking universities to commit to sponsoring or setting up new schools in exchange for the ability to charge higher fees;
· allowing selective schools to expand, or new ones to open, while making sure they support non-selective schools;
· allowing new faith free schools to select up to 100% of pupils based on their faith, and introducing new requirements to make sure that faith schools include pupils from different backgrounds."
The consultation window closes at 11.45pm on Monday 12 December.
Thanks,
MNHQ