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Crackdown on school place cheats

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Tougher action should be taken against the thousands of parents who lie to get their children into popular schools, England's school places watchdog says.

Schools Adjudicator Ian Craig said an estimated 3,500 parents lied on school application forms each year.

He has called on local authorities to use all means open to them to deter parents from cheating the admissions system, but stopped short of calling for school place fraud to be made a crime.

Sarah Campbell reports.

READ MORE: Crackdown on school place cheats

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