Member

Currently, the Schools Adjudicator can consider objections only where the admission authority has decreased its public published admission numbers—PAN. The change presented by the Government will mean that the adjudicator can consider objections where a school is seeking to retain or increase its pupil numbers, and the adjudicator’s decision will determine the PAN, which the school must adopt. We think this clause needs rethinking, and my amendments offer the Government different ways of improving on it, as well as arguing that Clause 56 should not stand part of the Bill.