Peterborough Council is expected to give a green light for a new Catholic primary school in the City which, if opened, would become the first fully religiously selective faith school to be established with Government funded support in almost a decade.
An independent faith school has been found to routinely segregate and afford different opportunities to its pupils on the grounds of sex.
Attempts by members of Peterborough City Council’s Education Committee to scrutinise and offer their view on plans for a new discriminatory faith school in the area have been frustrated by the Committee’s Chair.
Following the Election and tougher stance Ofsted is taking in scrutinising independent schools, Accord has urged the Government to close loopholes that are enabling illegally unregistered schools to operate.
A Catholic Diocese has proposed opening a school that would not be fully religiously discriminatory in pupil admissions, prompting fresh questions about why the Catholic Education Service asserts state funded Catholic schools must be able to reserve all their pupil places on religious grounds.
