Petition · past parliament
Return power over admissions to academy schools to local authorities
Closed
96 signatures
What the petition asks
Currently UK academy schools are not bound by local authorities’ admissions decisions. They are regulated by the Education and Skills Funding Agency, which is slow to respond to local authorities’ issues with academy schools.
We’d like to see changes to the rules of legislation requiring academy schools to be bound to local education authorities and not be able to ignore rules they do not want to adhere to. We’d also like all public schools admissions authorities decisions to admit a child to a school to be final and binding. Academy schools are only bound by decisions made solely by the Secretary of State for Education. This is a situation that allows schools to completely ignore local schools authorities and this must change.
Timeline
| 17 Jan 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 17 Jul 2018 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
96
Status
Closed
Opened
17 Jan 2018
Closed
17 Jul 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.