wandsworth council in london has announced that it is set to remove the rule giving an automatic place to a pupil 's brothers and sisters even if the family has moved out of the catchment area that this comes after it was revealed that 80,000 children face missing out on their preferred primary school , with more than 20,000 at risk of being denied any of their preferred choices .
in the most oversubscribed areas , four in ten pupils are expected not to get a place at their favourite school .