faith school religious selection drives racial segregation – Humanists UK
Rear view of male and female students walking towards school entrance on way in to school Research from Humanists UK has revealed that religious selection in state faith school admissions drives racial segregation in their pupil intake. In particular, schools with a 50% cap on faith-based admissions are more ethnically diverse than those that select 100% of their pupils by religion. This important finding reinforces concerns around proposals in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, currently in the final debates between the Commons and Lords in Parliament, that will lift the ban on opening new 100% religiously selective schools in England. Since 2007, all new religious Academies have been limited to selecting at most half of their places on the basis of religion – which has been dubbed the ‘50% cap’. Since 2011, virtually all new state schools have had to be free schools, and they too have been subject to the cap. The Labour Government has said it will maintain this cap for free schools. But the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill proposes to …
