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date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what additional steps, if any, they will take to monitor and enforce compliance with the School Admissions Code in the light of their decision to limit those who can formally object to school admission arrangements; and what estimate they have made of what percentage of the objections submitted to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by (1) parents, and (2) groups or organisations, were successful between 2012 and 2015 inclusive.
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL5843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>The School Admissions Code exists to ensure that places in all state funded schools are allocated in a fair and transparent manner. The Department for Education will shortly be consulting on a package of changes to the Code, which will include measures to assist parents and promote fairness and transparency. The proposed changes in relation to objections are designed to ensure that the Schools Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school and is not held up by the need to also consider large numbers of objections referred by interest groups from outside the area. Local authorities will continue to have the right to object so that they are able to act on behalf of the local community.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/02/2016 17:06:28 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

450483

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it is their policy that all schools should follow the School Admissions Code, and if so, why objections to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator that have been upheld have been described by the Secretary of State for Education as "vexatious".
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL5845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>All maintained schools and academies are required to comply with the School Admissions Code.</p><p>Currently, legislation allows ‘any person or body who considers that a maintained school or academy’s arrangements are unlawful’ to refer an objection to the Schools Adjudicator. However, the Adjudicator raised concerns in her recent annual report that, in some instances, groups and individuals appear to have referred objections in an attempt to influence government policy.</p><p>We want to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns that parents may have about their local school’s admission arrangements, and is not held up by the need to also consider large numbers of objections referred by interest groups from outside the area. We are, therefore, proposing that only local parents and local authorities should be able to refer objections to the Schools Adjudicator.</p><p>We will be conducting a full public consultation in due course and will give careful consideration to all the views expressed in that consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/02/2016 17:06:09 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

450484

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to comments made by Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, Chair of the Accord coalition, opposing proposals to prevent organisations from objecting to the admission arrangements of schools.
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL5846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government will shortly consult on a package of changes to the School Admissions Code which will both respond to concerns from parents and to the findings in the Chief Adjudicator’s Annual Report. That package will include measures to improve fairness and transparency.</p><p>We want the Schools Adjudicator to be able to focus on objections raised by those who will be affected by admission arrangements. Local Authorities will continue to have a right to object on behalf of the local community.</p><p>The Government supports the need for an independent body to respond to concerns raised about the fairness of school admission arrangements. The Schools Adjudicator is that body and we are confident of both the independence and rigour of the adjudication process.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL5847 question first answered 18/02/2016 17:07:05 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

450485

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the report by the Fair Admissions Campaign in 2015, and in particular its recommendations that an independent body be established actively to monitor and enforce schools' admissions arrangements.
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL5847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government will shortly consult on a package of changes to the School Admissions Code which will both respond to concerns from parents and to the findings in the Chief Adjudicator’s Annual Report. That package will include measures to improve fairness and transparency.</p><p>We want the Schools Adjudicator to be able to focus on objections raised by those who will be affected by admission arrangements. Local Authorities will continue to have a right to object on behalf of the local community.</p><p>The Government supports the need for an independent body to respond to concerns raised about the fairness of school admission arrangements. The Schools Adjudicator is that body and we are confident of both the independence and rigour of the adjudication process.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL5846 question first answered 18/02/2016 17:07:05 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

450486

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	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 impact on parents from low income backgrounds.
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL5848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>Our proposed changes are intended to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school. We do not want parents’ objections to be held up by the need to also consider objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.</p><p>It will remain open for local authorities to object to the Adjudicator about schools’ admission arrangements as the champion of local parents. Preventing interest groups from submitting objections will not have a detrimental impact on lower income families.</p><p>We will conduct a full public consultation in due course and will give careful consideration to all the views expressed in that consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/02/2016 16:55:31 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen