Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the admissions cap has not significantly increased the diversity of intake in faith-designated - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the rationale behind the proposed change to the state-funded faith schools admissions cap by - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) arrangements for new free schools, what is proposed is just that the admissions criteria that apply - Speech Link
Oct. 21 2008
Source Page: Table showing Secondary Schools: Number of Schools and Number (Headcount) of Pupils, broken down by Admissions Policy. 6 p.Found: Table showing Secondary Schools: Number of Schools and Number (Headcount) of Pupils, broken down by Admissions
Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the School Admissions Code.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The School Admissions Code (the Code) exists to ensure that places in all state-funded schools are allocated in a fair and transparent manner. Admission authorities for all state-funded schools are required to comply with the requirements of the Code and related admissions law.
The latest version of the Code came into force on 1 September 2021. The department keeps the provisions of the Code under review to ensure they continue to remain fit for purpose, however there are currently no plans to change the Code.
Asked by: Stephen Timms (Labour - East Ham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Selective Comprehensives 2024, published by the Sutton Trust on 11 January 2024, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the school admissions code.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The School Admissions Code sets the requirements for admission arrangements for all mainstream, state-funded schools. It requires admission arrangements to be fair, clear and objective, and contains various provisions to ensure that children from low-income backgrounds are not unfairly disadvantaged in the admissions system.
The department keeps the provisions of the Code under review to ensure they continue to remain fit for purpose.
Asked by: Baroness Whitaker (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings from their consultation on lifting the cap on faith-based admissions in religious free schools; and the possible socio-economic impacts of lifting the cap.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The consultation was launched on 1 May 2024 and will run for seven weeks, closing on 20 June 2024.
The department will then carefully consider all responses to the consultation and use them to inform the department’s recommendations for better meeting the policy objectives of faith schools.
The government’s response will be published on the GOV.UK website within 12 weeks following closure of the consultation.
Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the cap on faith school admissions.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
My Rt. Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 1 May 2024 that the department are consulting on faith designation reforms for new and existing free schools and special academies. This is available on Hansard at: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-05-01/hcws437.
The consultation will run for seven weeks, closing on 20 June 2024. The department will then carefully consider all responses to the consultation and use them to inform the department’s recommendations for better meeting the policy objectives of faith schools.
The government’s response will be published on the GOV.UK website within twelve weeks following closure of the consultation.
We want the Government to legislate so that where a schools prioritises siblings in its admissions policy, they must include all siblings, even those who do not live at the same address. This should include all siblings with regular contact or court ordered contact.
Found: Currently, schools are allowed to decide their own approach to sibling priority for admissions.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LDEM - Life peer) recommendation that the United Kingdom should prevent the use of religion as a selection criterion for school admissions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LDEM - Life peer) of the Child, which has urged the UK to end the use of religion as a selection criterion for school admissions - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Only when a school is oversubscribed can the admissions authority introduce additional restrictions. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) If there is a specific example where the noble Baroness believes that the admissions code is not being - Speech Link
5: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) Does she accept that Catholic schools, at least, are not state schools? - Speech Link
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Co-ordinated admissions 2025: series 21 filesFound: Co-ordinated admissions 2025: series 21 files
Dec. 02 2010
Source Page: The effect of changes in published secondary school admissions on pupil composition. 30 p.Found: The effect of changes in published secondary school admissions on pupil composition. 30 p.