The three degrees of faith that will help decide access to Church schools

The Church of England has drawn up a “three-tier” category of Christian in an attempt to simplify admissions to oversubscribed faith schools. The Church says that it is attempting to avoid policies that look like “covert social selection”.

The new system has been condemned and is likely to be rejected by some of the leading and most oversubscribed schools.

Under the new three-tier approach, children will no longer be awarded a place based on church attendance. Instead, they will be classed as “known to the church”, “attached to the church” or “at the heart of the church”. Read more