REQUEST FOR AVARIATION FOR ADMISSIONS IN SEPTEMBER 2019

Name of School

Type of School (i.e. Foundation, VA,

Community, VC)[1]

Address of School

Telephone Number of School

Name of Headteacher

Email address of Headteacher

Name of Chair of Governors

Email address of Chair of Governors

Name of local authority

Name and address of authorised

officer in local authority

Telephone Number

Email address

For schools with a religious character, what

is thename and address of the authorised

officer in thereligious authority?

Telephone number

Email address

Signature of applicant – For community and voluntary controlled schools, this will normally[2] be an authorised officer of the local authority. For voluntary aided and foundation schools this will be the chair of governors.

SignedDate

Please note that information provided on this form will be copied to the other parties listed above.

Please complete the appropriate parts of this form. If possible, please send the form and all necessary attachments by email to

OR Post to:The Office of the Schools Adjudicator

Bishopsgate House

Feethams

Darlington

DL1 5QE

INITIAL INFORMATIONREQUIRED

1. Current Admission Arrangements

Please provide:

  1. a copy of the complete determined arrangements and a link to where they can be found on the admission authority’s website;
  1. a copy of the minutes of the meeting where the arrangements were determined; and
  1. the local authority’s most recently available composite prospectus for parents.

2. The requested variation

  1. What major change of circumstance has occurred since the arrangements were determined?
  1. What problems have arisen, or are foreseen, as a result of this change in circumstances?
  1. What variation is being proposed?
  1. How will the proposed variation address the problems arising from the change of circumstances?

3. Notification of appropriate bodies

The School Admissions Code requires that the following are notified of the proposed variation:

  • all other admission authorities within the relevant area[3] (except that primary schools need not notify secondary schools);
  • whichever of the governing boardor the local authority is not the admission authority.
  • in the case of schools with a religious character, the religious authority.
  • and so far as not covered by the above, all governing bodies for community and voluntary controlled schools in the relevant area.

In addition, before a local authority refers a request for a variation to the admission arrangements of a community or voluntary controlled school to the adjudicator, it must consult the board of governors of the school.

Please provide evidence that the above notification requirements have been met and provide any comments received from the above bodies about the proposed variation.

4. Reduction of Published Admission Number (PAN)

Please complete this section if you are applying for a reduction in PAN.

Foundation and voluntary aided schools may need to obtain some of this information from their local authority.

  1. Please attach a copy of the first and last pages of the Net Capacity Assessment Form for the school.
  1. Please complete the following table.

September / PAN / Number of first preferences / Number of places allocated / Number of appeals lodged / Number of appeals upheld
2015
2016
2017
2018
  1. Please provide the local authority’s forecast for the number of places expected to be required at the school in the next three years.

Number of places forecast to be required
2019
2020
2021
  1. Please explain how the proposed reduction in PAN does not compromise the local authority’s duty to ensure that there are sufficient school places in the area. Please support this with place planning data for the area.

[1] Applications to vary admission arrangements of academies and free schools should be directed to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

[2] In the unusual case that the local authority has delegated responsibility for admissions to the governing board, making it the admission authority, then this will be the chair of governors.

[3] The relevant area is defined in the Code as “The area for a school (determined by its local authority and then reviewed every two years) within which the admission authority for that school must consult all other prescribed schools on its admission arrangements.”