I support the Children, Families and Schools Committee's decision not to change the secondary schools admissions procedure.

This was a democratic decision made after proper consultation, with the majority of parents across Brighton and Hove voting against the proposed changes.

The proposed priority nodes for Blatchington Mill and Dorothy Stringer schools would have excluded local children from those schools and forced them onto buses and into cars to travel across the city to other schools, which can't be right. Support the right of children to walk to their local school.

A proposal for feeder schools should be considered where children would progress automatically from infant to secondary as a group.

This would remove a lot of the current uncertainty from secondary schools' admissions procedures.

-Mary Carson, Brighton