The School Admissions (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007

Duties of LEA under a qualifying secondary scheme relating to applications for in-area schools

2.  A qualifying secondary scheme must require an authority—

(a) in the case of any application made under the common application form for a secondary school in their area for which the governing body are the admission authority, to forward details of the application, together with any supporting information provided by the parent, to the governing body or the body with whom the governing body has made arrangements under paragraph 6(b) (except where that body is the authority);

(b) in relation to each application made on the common application form for a school for which the authority are the admission authority, to determine by reference to the school’s admissions criteria the order of priority in which the application for the school is ranked;

(c) in any case where it appears to the authority, having regard to—

(i) any determination made in accordance with sub-paragraph (b), and

(ii) any information sent to them in accordance with paragraph 6(c),

that a child in their area is eligible to be granted admission to more than one secondary school, or is not eligible to be offered admission to any school, to determine in accordance with the provisions of the scheme whether the child is to be granted or refused admission to a secondary school in their area;

(d) in any case where any authority determine in accordance with sub-paragraph (c) that a child is to be granted or refused admission to a secondary school in their area for which they are not the admission authority, to notify the school’s governing body of their determination;

(e) to communicate any determination granting or refusing admission to a secondary school in their area to the parent on the day prescribed by regulation 9(2) (such determination being communicated on behalf of a school’s governing body in any case where the authority are not the admission authority for the school); and

(f) with regard to any application relating to a child living in a different local education authority’s area, to notify that authority of their determination.