Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and AcademiesTrust, said that Kingshurst City Technology College in Birmingham wouldconvert to an academy and build accommodation for 100 boarders. A fifthof the school's places would be reserved for children in care.
He told a conference of head teachers: "I am proposing we set a goalover a three-year period that at least 10 per cent of looked-afterchildren have the possibility of a boarding school place."
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