ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the cases where the new Labour government acted in a way that was completely congruent with its Conservative predecessor. Labour government first accepted the application from Virgo Fidelis Roman Catholic secondary school for girls in Upper Norwood, Croydon. The school for Catholic girls originally opened in 1848 and the profits from the school paid for Catholic orphans in a linked project. The new Labour government also accepted the application for grant-maintained status for two Jewish primary schools - one newly built and the other the transfer of an existing private school into the state sector. The decision to allow the John Loughborough School in Tottenham, London, to become sponsored grant-maintained marked the satisfactory conclusion of its campaign for state support that spanned two decades. The school had been at the centre of several attempts to gain support for religious minorities and had worked with the Christian Schools Campaign to achieve legislative change.
