PAPER B
Purpose : For Decision
Committee : REGULATORY
APPEALS COMMITTEE
Date : 16
APRIL 2004
Title : APPOINTMENT
TO POOL OF INDEPENDENT EDUCATION APPEAL PANELISTS
REPORT OF THE HEAD OF LEGAL AND
DEMOCRATIC SERVICES
SUMMARY
In accordance with the Education (Admission Appeal
Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002, a pool of members must be established
from which independent appeal panels are drawn. The appeal panels give
consideration to appeals against the decision of the Local Education Authority
to refuse a child admission to a school for which their parent has expressed a
preference. They will also be eligible
to be appointed by the Diocesan Education Authorities to sit on appeals panels
in respect of church aided school appeals.
Panellists could also be appointed to hear appeals bought by parents
against the permanent exclusion of their child from school.
BACKGROUND
In accordance with Regulation 3(a) and (d) and
Schedule 1 to the Education (Admissions Appeal Arrangements) (England)
Regulations 2002 appeal panels must constitute of three or five members
appointed by the Local Education Authority (LEA) and comprise of at least one
member from each of the following categories: people without personal
experience in the management of any school or the provision of education in any
school (disregarding experience as a school governor or in another voluntary
capacity) and from those who have experience in education; are familiar with
educational conditions in the LEA’s area; or who are parents of registered
pupils at a school.
Two members of the Regulatory Appeals Committee and
the clerk to the Appeals Panels conducted an interview with the applicant and
Members are now requested to appoint Mr David Rogers to the pool of Lay Panel
members from which the Diocesan Education Authorities may also choose members
to sit on appeals panels relating to Aided Schools