Church policy generally requires that preference be given to Catholic applicants to Church-sponsored schools, meaning in effect it’s been impossible for new Catholic free schools to be opened for over a decade.
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More than 1,000 people have signed the Catholic Union s open letter to the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, calling on her to lift the cap on faith-based admissions to new free schools.The letter was delivered to Ms Keegan at the Department for Education by Catholic Union Pre.
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The Children s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza DBE, has said that "we need to be more vocal about the importance of families".Dame Rachel was speaking at the Catholic Union s annual Craigmyle Lecture. She told the audience of almost 100 people that "over the years .