
One man’s playing the system is another man’s breaking the rules and, when it comes to getting your child into the best state school, this certainly seems to be the case.
The extreme — and sometimes dishonest — lengths Londoners will go to has been exposed in a recent survey by Zoopla, as a staggering 38 per cent of the capital’s parents admitted to ‘playing the system or bending the rules’ to secure a coveted school place.