Changes to state school admissions regulations announced by the Government will remove the requirement for faith schools in England to provide up to half of their spaces to students who do not practise their religion.
In the UK, there are more than 4,500 Church of England schools, 1,955 Catholic schools and 139 other Christian denominations among England's 20,000 mainstream state schools. There are 50 Jewish, 12 Sikh and two Hindu faith schools, compared with 34 Islamic ones.
