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Records of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator

Catalogue reference: OSA

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Records created by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA). For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

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OSA

Title
Records of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator
Date

2001

Description

Records created by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA).

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Office of the Schools Adjudicator, 1998-1998
Physical description

1 series

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Administrative / biographical background

The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) was established under section 25 of the School Standards Framework Act 1998. Schools Adjudicators make decisions relating to school organisation issues and admission arrangements in cases that cannot be resolved locally.

The OSA?s functions are: To determine objections to admission arrangements and appeals from schools against a direction from the local authority to admit a particular pupil; To resolve disputes where there is local disagreement on statutory proposals for school reorganisation or on the transfer and disposal of non-playing filed land and assets; To decide on competitions for new schools where the local authority has entered the competition with its own proposals; To decide on request to vary determined admission arrangements.

The office is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C403/

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Records of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator