Faking divorce, claiming to live in a shop, passing off a grandparent's house as one's own: not more revelations of mps' accounting tricks, but tactics used by parents to get their children into oversubscribed state schools. A report on the subject published on November 2nd listed all these and more. In it Ian Craig, the schools adjudicator, describes those who game the system as "thieves" whose actions deprive the more deserving of places of their own.
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