New Clause 4
Education and Inspections Bill
11:45 am
Admissions administration
‘(1) Chapter 1 of Part III of SSFA 1998 (schools admissions) is amended as follows.
(2) After section 89 insert the following section—
“89A Admissions administration
(1) Admissions administration will receive all applications for places made on behalf of pupils seeking admission to maintained schools, academies, city technology colleges and city colleges for the technology of the arts within its local education authority's area.
(2) Admission administration will anonymise these applications so that the identity of individual applicants cannot be identified by the schools for which they have applied or indicated a preference.
(3) Admission administration will determine the awarding of places at maintained schools within its local education authority's area having regard to the arrangements which are to apply for that year, established by any admission authority within that area, including special arrangements provided for in section 91.
(4) The person responsible for admissions administration within a local education authority must be employed or commissioned by the local education authority.
(5) In this Chapter “admissions administration” means the person responsible for the administration of arrangements for the admissions of pupils to any school within a local education authority's area.”'.—[Sarah Teather.]