This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Under the Equality Act 2010, state and independent schools are prohibited from discriminating in their admissions policies on the grounds of race. In any case, schools are not responsible for who applies to attend or who lives in their catchment area and cannot therefore be held to a fixed target in terms of diversity on their roll.

Action unclear as not clear how this would be achieved. I think it's resp as faith schools' exemption from the Equality Act is a Gov decision and a similar exemption could in theory be granted to schools to allow them to prioritise BAME kids. Just not sure we'd want to publish a petition asking for that as it's problematic at best.

You could start a petition calling for all schools to be granted an exemption from the Equality Act to allow them to discriminate in favour of race, if that is something you would like to happen. Alternatively you could start a petition calling on the Government to provide funding to fee-paying schools for scholarships for BAME children.

In the meantime, we have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092

Introduce Gender and Race equity for GCSE English Literature set texts:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324934

Mandate regular anti-racist training for all teachers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/326047