Primary Education: Admissions

(asked on 9th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to local education authorities on setting admission criteria for oversubscribed primary schools.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 12th May 2016

School admission authorities are responsible for setting admissions criteria for their schools. The statutory School Admissions Code sets out the requirements which all admission authorities must comply with when setting their admissions criteria. It can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389388/School_Admissions_Code_2014_-_19_Dec.pdf

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