questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Social Selection on the Map, published by the Sutton Trust on 3 September 2024, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of (a) reviewing existing admissions code policies and (b) making Pupil Premium eligibility a required part of schools’ oversubscription criteria.
answerText: The department has no current plans to make eligibility for the pupil premium a mandatory oversubscription criteria in school admission arrangements.However, through the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department is planning to legislate on requiring all s...
heading: Schools: Admissions