Clause 38
Education and Inspections Bill
6:10 pm
Christopher Chope (Christchurch, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 16—Admissions report by local education authority—
‘After section 85B of SSFA 1998 insert—
“85C Admissions report by local education authority
(1) A local education authority shall once in every school year make a report to the admission forum containing the following information—
(a) the proposed admission arrangements for every school, including academies and city colleges, in the local education authority area,
(b) the number of applications for each year group admitting pupils for each school,
(c) the number of pupils accepted for each year group and, if oversubscription criteria are used, the number of pupils selected using each oversubscription criterion, and
(d) the area which the school recruits pupils compared to the area in which the school is situated.
(2) The opinion of the local education authority shall be included in the report as to—
(a) whether the proposed admission arrangements for each school comply with the Code for School Admissions,
(b) what changes, if any, each admission authority, or as the case may be the governing body or each academy or city college, should make to their admission arrangements to comply with the Code for School Admissions,
(c) the accuracy and appropriateness of information given to parents seeking admission to the school, and
(d) whether the totality of the admission arrangements for the area produces fair access to schools for all pupils, and if not what further action the authority intends to take to ensure fair access to maintained schools and academies and city colleges.”'.
New clause 53—Reports on school admissions—
‘(1) A local education authority in England may prepare and publish reports on such matters connected with the admission of pupils to maintained schools, Academies or City Technology Colleges in that area as may be prescribed.
(2) For the purposes of the preparation of a report under section (1), a local education authority may request any of the following bodies to provide the authority with any information held by them which falls within a prescribed description and is specified by the authority in its request—
(a) the governing body of any maintained school, Academy or City Technology College in the area for which the local education authority has responsibility or whose catchments area falls into that area;
(b) any local education authority in England for an area which adjoins the area of the authority requesting the information.
(3) A body mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2) must comply with a request made by a local education authority in pursuance of that subsection.'.