Schools: Admissions

(asked on 16th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether proposed changes to who can object to school admissions arrangements will have a disproportionate effect on parents from low income backgrounds.


Answered by
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Lord Agnew of Oulton
This question was answered on 1st February 2018

Where the Schools Adjudicator determines that a school’s admission arrangements do not comply with the School Admissions Code, the admission authority has a statutory duty to revise its admission arrangements to give effect to the Adjudicator’s decision within two months of the decision or by 28 February following the decision, whichever is sooner, unless an alternative timescale is specified by the Adjudicator.

The Government expects admission authorities to comply fully and Department for Education officials always follow up cases where admission authorities are required by the Adjudicator to take action.

An Adjudicator’s decision is binding and enforceable by the Secretary of State.

The Department of Education is not proposing any changes to who can submit objections to the Schools Adjudicator in relation to school admission arrangements.

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