We want to end entry tests by ability and aptitude.

We want to see all schools bound into the School Admissions Code in the same way, regardless of whether they are maintained schools, academies, free schools or CTCs

We want to see the administration of all admissions to publicly funded schools managed by the local authority even if the criteria are set by the school. This would relieve all schools of the administrative burden and bring more openness to the procedure.

Any decision to introduce banding, ie admitting children to reflect the ability profile, should be made by the local admission forum and should apply to all schools in the area using the same method. The test on which banding is to be based should be taken by all children in the primary schools so that banding would reflect the ability profile across the area and not just those who apply to the school.

Increasing numbers of schools now have the freedom to set and manage their own admissions. The current government has weakened the School Admissions Code, which sets out the rules about how schools manage their oversubscription criteria, and local authorities have a diminished role in overseeing how admissions work in their areas. We believe this will lead to more unfairness and segregation.

Schools that use selective entry tests, or other opaque methods of covert selection, can damage other local schools by distorting their intakes.

Admissions criteria should be objective and transparent, allow parents to exercise choice fairly and judge their chances of success when applying.

Selective entry tests mean the majority of children are rejected and can start their secondary school careers feeling like failures. But human potential is not fixed and no one can predict how a child will develop in their teenage years. Every child should have the chance to develop their potential without any prejudgement of what that might be.

The statistics show that the intakes of selective schools are skewed towards better off children, whose parents can often afford private tuition that can help to pass entry tests. So selection at 11 hinders social mobility and leads to more segregation in local communities.

We lobby decision makers based on the evidence we gather from our own surveys, from academic research and from the local stories we receive from supporters, parents, governors, heads and teachers. We provide information to the public and the media through our website, pamphlets and public meetings. We support local campaigns on admissions and put campaigners in touch with each other.

Contact your MP pressing for an end to selection and a fairer admission system.

Send us information about school admissions in your area – you should be able to get information about this from your local authority website. Ask to see any reports your local authority has done on school admissions. Find out if you have a local admissions forum. Look at the school adjudicator website to see if there have been objections about local schools.

If your area is affected by selection send us your personal report of its effect.

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