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<p>All maintained and academy schools must comply with the School Admissions Code.
This requires them to give highest admissions priority to looked-after and previously
looked-after children.</p><p>The School Admissions Code does not apply, however, to
city technology colleges (CTCs), including city colleges for the technology of the
arts (CCTAs), which are independent schools set up under provisions originally within
the Education Reform Act 1998.</p><p>Each of these schools was established prior to
the introduction of a mandatory School Admissions Code, so the funding agreements
put in place do not require them to give priority to looked-after or previously looked
after children.</p><p>Any variation in those funding agreements has to be with the
CTC or CCTA’s agreement.</p>
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