School organisation: local-authority-maintained schools

From:: Department for Education
Part of:: School organisation
Published:: 28 January 2014
Last updated:: 8 April 2016, see all updates
Applies to:: England

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

Documents

Making 'prescribed alterations' to local-authority-maintained schools

Ref: DFE-00104-2016 PDF, 801KB, 50 pages

Deciding prescribed alteration and establishment and discontinuance proposals

Ref: DFE-00105-2016 PDF, 477KB, 25 pages

Opening and closing local-authority-maintained schools

Ref: DFE-00106-2016 PDF, 522KB, 28 pages

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.

Document information

Published: 28 January 2014

Updated: 8 April 2016

+ full page history

8 April 2016 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.
11 February 2016 Updated page to explain that we are currently reviewing our guidance to local-authority-maintained schools. We will update it shortly.
28 January 2014 First published.