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School Standards and Framework Act 1998

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94Appeal arrangements: general

(1)A local education authority shall make arrangements for enabling the parent of a child to appeal against—

(a)any decision made by or on behalf of the authority as to the school at which education is to be provided for the child in the exercise of the authority’s functions, other than a decision leading to or embodied in a direction under section 96 (directions for admission), and

(b)in the case of a community or voluntary controlled school maintained by the authority, any decision made by or on behalf of the governing body refusing the child admission to the school.

(2)The governing body of a foundation or voluntary aided school shall make arrangements for enabling the parent of a child to appeal against any decision made by or on behalf of the governing body refusing the child admission to the school.

(3)Joint arrangements may be made under subsection (2) by the governing bodies of two or more foundation or voluntary aided schools maintained by the same local education authority.

(4)A local education authority and the governing body or bodies of one or more foundation or voluntary aided schools maintained by the authority may make joint arrangements consisting of—

(a)such of the arrangements made by the authority in pursuance of subsection (1) as the authority may determine; and

(b)arrangements made by the governing body or bodies in pursuance of subsection (2).

(5)Schedule 24 has effect in relation to the making and hearing of appeals pursuant to arrangements made under this section.

(6)The decision of an appeal panel on an appeal under Schedule 24 shall be binding on—

(a)the local education authority or the governing body by whom or on whose behalf the decision under appeal was made, and

(b)in the case of a decision made by or on behalf of a local education authority, the governing body of a community or voluntary controlled school at which the appeal panel determines that a place should be offered to the child in question.

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