Foster teen denied place

A TEENAGER in foster care whose results were downgraded had her place to study law at Cambridge snatched away.

Leah Glenday would have been the first child from Haringey’s care system in London to go to university – and the first from West Hatch Comprehensive in Woodford Green to study at Cambridge.

But now Leah, who turned 18 on results day, faces missing out because of the algorithm designed to standardise grades.

She fears her younger sister will face the same grades fiasco when she gets her GCSE results next week.

Leah’s A* in economics and As in biology and chemistry were downgraded to ABB and her place at Girton College will be lost unless she wins an appeal.

Leah said: “I want to be a barrister and specialise in family law, so going to Cambridge would really help me get a pupillage.

“I wanted to tell people that if I could go to Cambridge so can they.”