Faith Schools: Admission Policies

Dr. Evan Harris
22. To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effect on community cohesion and the integration of young people from different religious and racial backgrounds of the practice of discrimination on religious grounds in the admission policies of faith schools.

Mr. Woolas
All school governing bodies now have a duty to promote community cohesion and this element of what they do will be inspected by Ofsted from September this year.