Schools: Closures

(asked on 19th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2016 to Question 55973, on school closures, whether the guidance her Department gives to academies on school closure consultations includes advice on pausing such consultations.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 10th January 2017

The Department’s guidance on consultation sets out the minimum periods for which local authorities and academy trusts must consult, where school closure is proposed, but it does not mention pausing a consultation.

Consultation on a proposal to close a school is undertaken locally either by the local authority or the academy trust to allow those directly affected by the proposals to provide their comments.

It is up to the local authority or academy trust to decide whether a consultation needs to be paused. The Department does not record or hold this information centrally.


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