Voluntary aided school meaning

FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Charities Act 2022 (CA 2022) obtained Royal Assent on 24 February 2022, and, as outlined in Charities Act 2022: implementation plan document, its measures are scheduled to commence in three specified and defined tranches across three phases, on 31 October 2022, on 14 June 2023 and in early 2024, respectively. For an overview of the CA 2022 provisions already brought into effect to date, see Charities Act 2022: information about the changes being introduced. The CA 2022 delivers the majority of the proposals from the Law Commission’s 2017 report, ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. For a synopsis (as at 9 April 2021) of the recommendations that have been accepted, see News Analysis: Government response to Law Commission report ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. This Practice Note is relevant solely to England, as such; there are no academies in Wales at all. Academy schools are established under the Academies Act 2010 (AcA 2010) legislation. An academy school is owned and operated by a corporate entity—typically a company...

This Practice Note outlines that who owns school land and buildings is chiefly determined by the school’s category, and examines ownership across community schools, voluntary schools, foundation schools, academies and free schools. It highlights renewed attention to the School Sites Act 1841 (SSA 1841), under which landowners were encouraged to gift plots for local schools on the understanding that, if a school later closed, the site would revert to the original donor. It also addresses provisions allowing schools to serve community uses such as elections. Ownership of school land and premises In broad terms, the ownership of school sites and playgrounds, school buildings and playing fields is largely dictated by the type of school. Community schools At ‘community’ schools, the land and premises are owned by the local authority for the area in which the school sits (that is, the county council, borough council or unitary authority). The same position applies to maintained nursery schools and community special schools. The local authority holds the legal freehold...

are chiefly regulated by: the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (SSFA 1998) the Welsh School Admissions Code the School Admissions Appeal Code the Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations, SI 2006/174 the School Admissions (Variations of Admission Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/1140 the Education (Admissions Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2005, SI 2005/1398 Admissions authority For community or voluntary controlled schools, the local authority serves as the admission authority, unless the whole function has been delegated to the school’s governing body. See Practice Note: Categories of schools. In the case of foundation or voluntary-aided schools, the governing body is the admission authority. Where the local authority is the admission authority for a community or voluntary controlled school, the governing body is under a duty to put into effect any decision about admitting pupils that is made by, or on behalf of, that admission authority. Admissions forum A local education authority (LEA) must set up...