The Information as to Provision of Education (England) Regulations 2016

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 INFORMATION TO BE CONTAINED IN REPORTS PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE

1.  The local authority number for the local authority.

2.  The name of the local authority.

3.  The date of the report.

4.  The sum of the admission numbers (which has the meaning given in section 88D(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1988 (1)) of all primary schools and secondary schools in the area of the local authority.

5.  For each child living in the area of the local authority in respect of whom an application or an offer is made, the following information—

(a) surname;

(b) first name;

(c) middle name (if any);

(d) unique pupil number (if any);

(e) date of birth;

(f) gender;

(g) home address; and

(h) the entry year applied for.

6.  In respect of any application made by a home applicant, whether such an application was received via the local authority’s website.

7.  In respect of every preference for a school expressed in the application of a home applicant, the following information—

(a) its rank in relation to any other preference expressed in the application;

(b) the local authority number for the local authority in whose area the school is located;

(c) the departmental establishment number for that school.

8.  In respect of any offer made in respect of a child living in the area of the local authority, the following information—

(a) whether an application was made;

(b) whether the offer corresponds with any preference expressed in the application of the home applicant;

(c) the local authority number for the local authority in whose area the school is located;

(d) the departmental establishment number for the school for which the offer is made.

9.  In this Schedule—

“application” means a preference expressed by a parent in accordance with section 86(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (2), or by a parent or a child in accordance with section 86A(1)(c) or (d) of that Act (3);

“departmental establishment number” means the identification number allocated to the school by the Department for Education;

“home applicant” means the parent of a child living in the area of the authority; and

“local authority number” means the identification number allocated to the authority by the Department for Education;

“offer” means an offer communicated by a local authority to admit a child in its area to a school(4).

(1)

Section 88D was inserted by section 151(4) of the Education and Skills Act 2008.

(2)

Section 86(1) was amended by S.I.2010/1158.

(3)

Section 86A was inserted by section 150 of the Education and Skills Act 2008.

(4)

By virtue of the School Admissions (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I.2007/194), every offer to admit a child in their area to a school in their area must be communicated to the child’s parents by the authority (such offer being communicated on behalf of the governing body of the school which is its own admission authority). Also by virtue of those Regulations, an offer to admit a child in their area to a secondary school in the area of another authority may be communicated by the authority.