Too many academies and faith schools have admission arrangements that appear to enable them to covertly select which children to admit, the chief schools adjudicator has warned.
The annual report of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator claims that too many schools that are their own admission authority – these are usually academy and faith schools – have “unnecessarily complex” admissions and often request prohibited information from families.
The report – which covers the period September 2013 to August 2014 – does not give exact numbers, but states: “Admission arrangements for too many schools that are their own admission authority are unnecessarily complex. The arrangements appear to be more likely to enable the school to choose which children to admit rather than simply having oversubscription criteria as required by paragraph 1.8 of the (School Admissions) Code that are reasonable, clear, objective and procedurally fair.”
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