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<p>All academy schools' funding agreements require them to comply with admissions
legislation and the school admissions code. The Secretary of State for Education,
can agree different arrangements (‘derogations') for individual academies and free
schools but would only do so in limited circumstances where it would benefit local
children.</p><p>Derogations are contained within the admission annex of the relevant
funding agreements published at:</p><p><a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/"
target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/</a></p><p>All free
schools are able to allocate places outside of local authority co-ordination in their
first year; while all academy schools opened since 2012 can prioritise admissions
for pupils eligible for the pupil and service premiums. We would also permit those
opening before 2012 to change their funding agreements in order to give priority to
such pupils.</p><p>Specific derogations have also been agreed for individual schools.
As stated on the Department's website, where parents have worked hard to create a
free school, we will consider requests to allow a limited number of founder's children
in that school to get priority in admissions. We have permitted a small number of
free schools to give priority to founder's children. These are detailed in the schools'
funding agreements. Specific derogations are also in place for three academy schools
set up under the previous administration, in Belvedere Academy (Liverpool) for a transitional
period until 2015 to allow pupils on the roll of an independent school that used to
be part of Belvedere to be admitted to the academy; in Priory LSST (Lincoln), to permit
it to select 10% of its students by technology and in Ormiston Academy (Birmingham)
to allow it – as a regional centre for the arts – to select the majority of its pupils
by aptitude for the performing arts.</p>
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