Office of the Schools Adjudicator- About the office

About the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA)

Schools Adjudicators were appointed under Section 25 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Click here for details on the Act.

Adjudicators main functions are:

to determine objections to admission arrangements .
to resolve disputes where there is local disagreement on statutory proposals for school reorganisation or on the transfer and disposal of non playing field land and assets.
to decide on competitions for new schools where the local authority has entered the competition with its own proposals.
to decide on requests to vary determined admission arrangements.
to determine appeals from schools against a direction from the local authority to admit a particular pupil.

Please note: adjudicators do not deal with complaints from any parents whose child has not been offered a place at a particular school.