Clause 3 - Duty to consider parental representations
Education and Inspections Bill
1:30 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister (Schools), Education; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
No. This research says that they did not apply to their nearest school. [Interruption.] No, it does not imply that they applied and were turned down because of the criteria of the school, or because they had been interviewed and found not to be of sufficient calibre to go to the school. These parents decided, on the basis of what they learned and experienced of the school—for example, its results and the behaviour of its pupils as they arrived and left, and what they heard from parents of children who are already at the school, which is the best form of information about schools—that they did not wish even to apply to that school because they were not happy with it.