Schools minister, Jim Knight, has been accused of barking up the wrong tree over enforcing the Schools Admission Code. Mr Knight wrote to all local authority chief executives and directors of social services last week as the new mandatory Admission Appeals Code came into force. He warned not all parents and children had got ‘a fair chance' to get into a school of their choice this September. But Chris Waterman, author of Mission Pamphlets on schools admissions said he was making ‘exactly the right point, but to exactly the wrong people'. He told The MJ: ‘Schools which have their own admissions authorities have greater scope to bend rules. There is still a degree of subjectivity in faith admissions.'
