A report by the majority of MPs on Parliament's Education and SkillsSelect Committee, which scrunitises Government education policy, urged aseries of changes to the proposals including those that would letschools set their own admissions policies.
On admissions, the committee's report argues that the Government mustensure a "fair and transparent" process until all schools are of ahigh-quality. It calls for schools to be made to follow a nationaladmissions code of practice more closely and for a ban on academicselection. The Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs warn that without such asafeguard schools would favour children who are more likely to performwell academically.
The committee also urged the Government to reconsider plans to createtrust schools and take particular care when transferring public assetsto them, and called for all schools to be required to co-operate onEvery Child Matters, and for teachers to be given more time fortraining.
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