Office of Public Sector Information

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 2 Information to be contained in reports to the Secretary of State

1.  The identification number allocated to the authority by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

2.  The name of the authority.

3.  The date of the report.

4.  The number of applications received by the authority from parents of children living in the area of the authority (“home applicants”).

5.  The number of such applications which were received via the authority’s web-site.

6.  The sum of the admission numbers of all secondary schools in the area of the authority.

7.  The number of home applicants who expressed—

(a) one preference,

(b) two preferences,

(c) three preferences,

(d) four preferences,

(e) five preferences, and

(f) six or more preferences

in their application.

8.  The number of offers communicated by the authority to home applicants which corresponded with the applicant’s—

(a) highest preference,

(b) second preference,

(c) third preference,

(d) fourth preference,

(e) fifth preference, and

(f) sixth or lower preference.

9.  The number of home applicants to whom the authority has not communicated an offer which corresponds with any preference expressed by them.

10.  The number of home applicants falling within paragraph 9 to whom an offer has been communicated by the authority.

11.  The number, if any, by which the sum of the admission numbers of all secondary schools in the area of the authority exceeds the number of offers to admit to a school in the area of the authority (whether communicated by the authority or by another authority, and whether or not to home applicants).

12.  The number of home applicants to whom the authority has communicated an offer to admit to a school in the area of the authority.

13.  The number of home applicants to whom the authority has communicated an offer to admit to a school in the area of another authority.

Regulation 7

SCHEDULE 3 Regulations revoked

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 14th February 2008, are made under section 29(3) of the Education Act 1996 and prescribe the information that local education authorities must provide to the Secretary of State in each year relating to the provision of primary and secondary education in their area.

They are consolidating Regulations. They revoke and replace The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulations 1999 and amending Regulations with one change, by introducing a new period within which the information is to be provided each year.

They also contain a new requirement, in regulation 5, that local education authorities provide the Secretary of State with a report each year relating to the number of parental preferences met in accordance with section 86(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(Section 86(1) requires local education authorities to make arrangements for enabling parents of children in their area to express a preferences as to the school at which they wish education to be provided for their child in the exercise of the authority’s functions; and section 86(2) requires admission authorities for maintained schools to comply with any preference so expressed, with limited exceptions.)

Regulation 5(1) requires local education authorities to provide a report containing the information specified in Schedule 2 in relation to the admission of children to secondary schools in their area (such as: the number of applications received; the number of first, second, or third etc. preferences met; the number of parents to whom an offer of a school place was made that did not correspond with any of their preferences), correct as at 1st March.

Regulation 5(2) enables local education authorities to provide a further report containing the information specified in Schedule 2, correct as at 1st September each year.