Yasmin Qureshi – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Yasmin Qureshi on 2016-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the press release of the Department for Education of 4 January 2016, entitled Parents to get greater say in the school admissions process, what assessment she has made of the potential effect that ensuring only local parents and councils can object to school admissions arrangements will have on overall levels of compliance with the School Admissions Code.

Nick Gibb

Our 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 to consider objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.

We do not believe that limiting who is able to refer objections to the Adjudicator will have a detrimental impact.

Any changes will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.