Schools

[ck1]

With so much legislation around discrimination and equal opportunities, how can faith schools get away with only admitting catholics for example, is this not discriminatory or even illegal?

[Peter Pedant]

religion IN schools is the big difference between UK and the land of the free
Butler Education Act 1944

and it has been continued

here is a pdf which will make your eyes glaze over...
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190260/DCSF-00114-2010.pdf

I was gonna search out the relevant legislation but there is a lon of it starting with the education Act 1996 and zillions of statutory instruments and I lost the will to live

[hc4361]

Can you provide a link to even one faith school that only accepts pupils from that faith?
All the faith schools I'm aware of have to admit a large proportion of pupils from different faiths or with no faith.

[lcg]

catholic schools accept all sorts of kids from different backgrounds - my son is an atheist and he went to one! you will find that all faith schools are required to take a proportion of children from different backgrounds in the uk - whether parents apply for their children to go there is a completely different matter.

[atalanta]

If a so-called "faith" school accepts government money, it cannot refuse admittance to adherents of other faiths, or no faith. If a school accepts only fees from parents, and no government money, presumably it can set its own admission rules. Schools are still supposed to ensure that the correct curriculum is followed, but it still may not be. There have recently been cases of at least one jewish school refusing to teach sex education and some aspects of evolution, for instance.