Statutory guidance

School organisation: local-authority-maintained schools

Statutory guidance about making organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools, including school closure.

Published 28 January 2014
Last updated 25 October 2018 — see all updates
From:
Department for Education
Applies to:
England

Documents

Details

These documents are for:

  • governing bodies
  • local authorities
  • decision makers

They describe opening, closing, or making school organisation changes to local-authority-maintained schools.

They 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.

Published 28 January 2014
Last updated 25 October 2018 + show all updates
  1. Attached new version of 'Making significant changes ('prescribed alterations') to maintained schools' to update the guidance from 2016.
  2. We have comprehensively reviewed and updated all 3 documents. The changes include corrections to discrepancies in the guidance on making ‘prescribed alterations’ to local-authority-maintained schools.
  3. Updated page to explain that we are currently reviewing our guidance to local-authority-maintained schools. We will update it shortly.
  4. First published.