Jules Botfield reported from Lewisham, where there's a campaign to build a new school.

Jules Botfield reports from the school gate

One of the campaigners was elected to the council on this issue in an attempt to get the new school built. Councillor Helen Le Fevre said that it's children who aren't being listened to - they want to go to a local school - that's their top priority.

But Katy Donnelly from the council's education committee said that the council would be opening a new school in the borough to offer education closer to where children live.

And on the issue of parental choice - parents wanting to send their children to good schools - she said that a school's reputation often lagged behind improvements that had been made.

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Having brothers or sisters already in a chosen school can be a major factor in allocating another school place, as can how close the family lives to a school.

Some schools allocate places on the first criterion and others on the second.

One Gloucestershire mum has fallen foul of the system and now has to face a daily nightmare school run.

Nicki Clayton can't get her three children into the same school. The school her first two children goes to in South Gloucestershire has a strict admissions policy that considers proximity in favour of whether the child has brothers or sisters in the school.

When she moved slightly further away from the school, it took her just outside the catchment area by a third of a mile and now Nicki can't get her third child into the same school, giving her a nightmare school run.

The policy changed after she had moved, and her attempt to appeal against the decision failed.