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<p>In December 2017 the Department announced that, when the opportunity arises, it
intends to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give
children who were previously in state care outside of England highest priority for
admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time when the relevant changes to
the Code can be made, admission authorities have been asked to use their current flexibilities
in setting their own admission arrangements to grant such children second highest
admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>To further encourage
admission authorities to make this change, additional advice was issued about this
matter to all local authorities, with a request that it is circulated to all own admission
authorities in their respective areas in August 2018.</p>
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