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More parents pay for appeals help

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A growing number of parents in England and Wales are using legal advice to get children into their preferred state school.

Legal firms contacted by the BBC said they had been inundated with requests and reported parents paying up to £2,000 to get help with an appeal.

Katharine Carpenter reports.

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