Thousands miss out on first-choice primary school

Labour says academies plan will make situation worse, after one in six families in some areas fail to secure place at preferred primaryTens of thousands of children failed to get into their first-choice primary school on national offer day in England, and Labour said the situation would get worse as a result of government plans to make all schools academies.In London, where demand for primary places is highest, one in six families learned on Monday that they had failed to get a place for their c