Member

It is very complex, because schools have two responsibilities. First and foremost, they have a responsibility for the children they teach—that is the competition—and secondly, they have that joint responsibility for every child in that area. We go on about place; we now think it is important. If place matters, there has to be a body that looks at admissions over a geographical area. I cannot think of any body but the local authority. If anyone else can, I would be prepared to listen, but in the absence of that, the part of the Bill that the Government have brought forward is best.