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EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2000 17 Education Correspondent But critics fear of distinctive and positive way through the school life we offer" But Graham Lane education chairman of the Local Government Association warned today that creating more Church of England schools would prompt Roman Catholics Muslims Sikhs Hindus and other groups to demand more schools reflecting their own faiths could be entering some very strange and uncharted waters which would not bode well for community relations" he said way forward in multi-racial areas has to be to make sure the cultural and religious needs of all pupils are catered for in state schools on an equal basis you create more Church of England schools you start disturbing the present balance and that could lead us into very difficult THE Church of England today set out ambitious plans to educate tens of thousands more inner city children and ran straight into a row with secular education authorities who warned the scheme could create religious and cultural division A review by Lord Dearing proposed 100 new Anglican secondary schools creating places for more of the 790000 children currently educated in its voluntary aided primary schools At present only one in five of these can find a place in a secondary school with the same religious ethos The review which also proposed more Anglican primary schools recommendations emphasises the Church of to serve those in areas of economic and social deprivation" New church schools should include existing failing schools and entirely new schools including City Academies proposed by the Government to boost education in the inner cities he said Lord Dearing stressed that the new church schools and colleges should be with a core of Christian pupils But admission should not be restricted to those whose parents could prove their faith Schools should to serve their local was commissioned by the Church two years ago in response to what it claims is high parental demand for education with a religious ethos and in a bid to strengthen its to the inner cities It stressed the Church's partnership with government and local education authorities" But LEA leaders today urged ministers to think carefully before agreeing to fiind new church schools warning this would provoke other religions to demand more schools promoting their faiths and disturb a cultural balance" in the inner cities report which contains 57 communities in all their the report said Lord Dearing said: Church has placed its schools at the centre of its mission to the nation We believe it is right to do so because church schools reach out to nearly a million young people and families every day demand shows the need for more church schools and this is a success story for the church have therefore recommended an increase in provision to help in reducing the large imbalance between primary and secondary provision but also as a means ofengaging with society in a Minimum sofaiy of QOflOO pra annum and 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