Schools Admission Appeals

Abstract

The political background to school admission appeals is well documented elsewhere.¹ Perhaps it is sufficient to say here that the controversy over parental choice is not a new one, nor can the future balance between the local education authorities' (LEAs) duty to provide efficient education and the parents' rights to determine their children's education be predicted with any certainty. According to Taylor and Saunders² a number of factors appeared to coalesce in the late 1970s;