Sutton Trust responds to grammar school plan with call for comprehensive education of ‘highly able’

The UK’s leading social mobility charity has responded to government plans for more grammar schools by calling for a national drive to improve education for “highly able” pupils in comprehensives.

In reports yesterday, which Downing Street has not denied, it emerged that Theresa May is planning to launch a new generation of grammar schools with a decision to scrap the ban on new selective schools expected to be announced as early as October.

Now the Sutton Trust social mobility has warned that bright children in comprehensives will miss out if the debate focuses on new grammar schools. It says a “proper strategy” is needed to support the less advantaged, bright students in non-selective schools.