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Joanna Sugden and Nicola Woolcock An urgent investigation has been ordered into whether rules aimed at preventing lying parents from flouting the school admissions system should be toughened. Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, called for the inquiry hours after a council in northwest London had to abandon a court case against a mother whom it suspected of falsifying her address to get her child into a good school. He had previously said that the admissions code, under which school places can be withdrawn if obtained by false pretences, was sufficient to tackle cheats. Last night he wrote to Ian Craig, the schools adjudicator, who oversees the admissions code, asking him to investigate the scale of the problem and whether existing powers are sufficient to prevent parents “unfairly playing the system”. Lawyers and councils said... [read full story]
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