Siblings barred from same school

Parents were "devastated" today after a High Court ruling which bars three children from attending the same London primary school as their brothers and sisters.

The ruling overturned a decision by an admissions panel which had granted the children places at Grove Park Primary School in Chiswick, even though Hounslow council said that would breach the Government's class size limits.

The ruling affects three families. For one it means an "impossible" choice between keeping their youngest child at home, or an hour-long school run.

The council's own admissions panel ruled in the families' favour, but Hounslow was granted a judicial review which ruled yesterday it did not have to give top priority to siblings.

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