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Schools: Admissions

Question for Department for Education

UIN 12887, tabled on 5 February 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Selective Comprehensives 2024, published by the Sutton Trust on 11 January 2024, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the school admissions code.

Answered on

8 February 2024

The School Admissions Code sets the requirements for admission arrangements for all mainstream, state-funded schools. It requires admission arrangements to be fair, clear and objective, and contains various provisions to ensure that children from low-income backgrounds are not unfairly disadvantaged in the admissions system.

The department keeps the provisions of the Code under review to ensure they continue to remain fit for purpose.

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