Full admissions advice and consultation

Overview

We provide advice on all matters relating to the Department for Education’s (DfE) School Admissions and Appeals Codes.

This includes helping you to prepare proposed admissions arrangements for consultation. We can also manage the consultation on your behalf as part of our annual process which starts in November each year.

Available for academies and free schools in Hackney only.

Why schools should have effective admissions processes

“In drawing up their admission arrangements, admission authorities must ensure that the practices and the criteria used to decide the allocation of school places are fair, clear, and objective. Parents should be able to look at a set of arrangements and understand easily how places for that school will be allocated.”
School Admissions Code, DfE, September 2021