The Education (Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Applications for in-area schools

3.  In respect of applications made for a maintained school in the area of the local authority, the qualifying scheme must require the local authority—

(a) where the application is for a maintained school for which the governing body is the admission authority, to provide to the governing body, or the body with whom the governing body has made arrangements under paragraph 5(b), details—

(i) of the application, and

(ii) any supporting information provided by the parent,

(b) where the application is for a maintained school for which the local authority is the admission authority, to determine by reference to the maintained school’s admissions criteria the order of priority in which each application for the school is ranked,

(c) to determine in accordance with the provisions of the qualifying scheme whether the child is to be offered or refused admission to a maintained school in its area where it appears to the local authority—

(i) that a child in its area is eligible to be offered admission to more than one maintained school, or

(ii) that a child in its area is not eligible to be offered admission to any maintained school,

(d) to make the determination under sub-paragraph (c) having regard to—

(i) any determination made under sub-paragraph (b), and

(ii) any determination notified to it under paragraph 5(c),

(e) in any case where the local authority’s determination under sub-paragraph (c) relates to a maintained school in its area for which it is not the admission authority, to notify the school’s governing body of its determination,

(f) except where sub-paragraph (g) applies, to send any determination under sub-paragraph (c) to the parent, whether or not it is the admission authority, and

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