School organisation: local-authority-maintained schools
Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers about opening, closing or making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
皇冠体育appse documents are for:
- local authorities
- governing bodies
- diocese or other relevant religious authorities
皇冠体育appy describe opening, closing, or making school organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.
皇冠体育appy set out how you can make those changes, and the areas where you must follow a statutory process.
This guidance is based on:
Statutory guidance sets out what schools and local authorities must do to comply with the law. You should follow the guidance unless you have a very good reason not to.
Trustees of the school, diocese or relevant diocesan board, or any other relevant faith body, parents and those affected by a proposal may also find this information useful.
Updates to this page
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Updated 'Making significant changes (鈥榩rescribed alterations鈥�) to maintained schools'.
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Updated guidance to reflect Ofsted's removal of single word judgements.
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We have reviewed this guidance and removed out-of-date information. 皇冠体育app legislation remains the same.
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Updated 'Opening and closing maintained schools' document.
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Removed 'Deciding prescribed alteration and establishment and discontinuance proposals'.
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Removed 2016 document 'Opening and closing local-authority-maintained schools'. Has been replaced with document from November 2018.
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Replaced file 'Making significant changes to maintained schools' with 'Opening and closing maintained schools'.
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Attached new version of 'Making significant changes ('prescribed alterations') to maintained schools' to update the guidance from 2016.
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We have comprehensively reviewed and updated all 3 documents. 皇冠体育app changes include corrections to discrepancies in the guidance on making 鈥榩rescribed alterations鈥� to local-authority-maintained schools.
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Updated page to explain that we are currently reviewing our guidance to local-authority-maintained schools. We will update it shortly.
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First published.