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<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>
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