"We want to make sure they are entering for the tests on a level playing field, " said Mr Sindall.

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The partnership, between Bournemouth Borough Council and Morgan Sindall Investments, is co-ordinating a programme of works across the town which is expected to last 20 years.

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Interviewees include senior staff from HIE and contractor Morgan Sindall.

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Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.

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Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.

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