Schools: Admissions Debate

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Department: Department for Education
Monday 17th July 2023

(1 year, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I am not aware that we have looked in detail at any of those proposals in the way that the noble Lord describes, but I am aware that all schools—potentially faith schools in particular—take their role in community cohesion very seriously.

Lord Moylan Portrait Lord Moylan (Con)
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Does my noble friend accept that the rights of parents to have their children educated according to their own religious beliefs is protected by Article 2 of the first protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights? Does she accept that Catholic schools, at least, are not state schools?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I am not quite sure that I follow. To the best of my knowledge, all Catholic schools outside the independent sector are funded by the state.