Schools Admission Policy and the Equality Act 2010

[Mr Taxpayer]

Mods please move to right forurm if this in the wrong place.

IIRC the Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination on a variety of grounds including gender.

Would a gender-specific state-run grammar school have to admit someone of the other gender under the auspices of the Equality Act? E.g. would Camberwick Green Girls' Grammar have to admit boys and vice-versa would Trumpton Grammar School for Boys have to admit girl applicants?

[TooMany2cvs]

Second google result for "equality act single sex school"...
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
p12, section 2.2

The Gov't said:

Chapter 2 -General exceptions

Single sex schools
2.2 Single sex schools are able to refuse to admit pupils of the opposite sex. The exception also permits a single sex school to admit a small number of pupils from the opposite sex on an exceptional basis or in relation to particular courses or classes only. If a single sex school has such pupils, limiting them to particular courses or classes is not discrimination. However, other forms of sex discrimination by the school against its opposite-sex pupils would still be unlawful. This means that (for example):

• A school which admits only boys is not discriminating unlawfully against girls
• A boys’ school which admits some girls to the Sixth Form, or which lets girls attend for a particular GCSE course not offered at their own school, is still regarded as a single-sex school.
• A boys’ school which admits girls to A-level science classes is not discriminating unlawfully if it refuses to admit them to A-level media studies or maths classes.
• A boys’ school which admits girls to the Sixth Form but refuses to let them use the same cafeteria or go on the same visits as other Sixth Form pupils would be discriminating unlawfully against them.
• A girls’ school which permits a pupil who is undergoing gender reassignment to remain after they adopt a male gender role would not lose its single-sex status

And before somebody raises the obvious follow-on, 2.3 onward deal with schools "of a religious character".

[Mr Taxpayer]

Cheers, TM2CVs

My god-daughter is in a girls grammar but not settled. Her brother is v.happy in the boys grammar. Her only option is the mixed comp. I was wondering on the possibility of her moving to the boys. Guess it's a no.

[MiniMan64]

Mr Taxpayer said:

Cheers, TM2CVs

My god-daughter is in a girls grammar but not settled. Her brother is v.happy in the boys grammar. Her only option is the mixed comp. I was wondering on the possibility of her moving to the boys. Guess it's a no.

Would you really want that for her if even if she could?!

[mp3manager]

Mr Taxpayer said:

Mods please move to right forurm if this in the wrong place.

IIRC the Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination on a variety of grounds including gender.

Would a gender-specific state-run grammar school have to admit someone of the other gender under the auspices of the Equality Act? E.g. would Camberwick Green Girls' Grammar have to admit boys and vice-versa would Trumpton Grammar School for Boys have to admit girl applicants?

No.

[Vaud]

Off topic but all the people I have met who have been to single sex schools at 11-18 have been singularly screwed up when it comes to relationships post school. Maybe some thing about puberty and formative relationships?

Either way, whist the genders develop at different rates, I am not sure that single sex schools, like any other segregation by gender, race or religion is a good thing.

As noted, slightly off topic

Edited by Vaud on Friday 20th February 23:32