PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Schools: Admissions (19 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she received from religious organisations on steps to prevent civil society organisations from objecting to school admission arrangements prior to her announcing proposals to limit such objections to local parents and councils.

Asked by:
Ruth Cadbury (Labour)

The Department’s proposed changes are intended to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school, and is not held up by the need also to consider objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.

We do not believe that preventing other organisations from submitting objections will have a detrimental impact.

A full public consultation will be conducted in due course and careful consideration will be given to all the views expressed in that consultation.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
24 February 2016