{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-admission-forums-england-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-admission-forums-england-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2900",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Admission Forums) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-admission-forums-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Role of a forum",
  "text": "(1) The role of a forum shall be to—\n(a) consider how well existing and proposed admission arrangements serve the interests of children and parents within the area of the authority;\n(b) promote agreement on admission issues;\n(c) consider the comprehensiveness and accessibility of the admission literature and information for parents, produced by each admission authority within the area of the forum;\n(d) consider the effectiveness of the authority’s proposed co-ordinated admission arrangements;\n(e) consider the means by which admissions processes might be improved and how actual admissions relate to the admission numbers published;\n(f) monitor the admission of children who arrive in the authority’s area outside a normal admission round with a view to promoting arrangements for the fair distribution of such children among local schools, taking account of any preference expressed in accordance with arrangements made under section 86(1) of the Act;\n(g) promote the arrangements for children with special educational needs, looked after children and children who have been excluded from school;\n(h) insofar as not included within sub-paragraphs (a) to (g), consider any admissions issues arising.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) a child shall be treated as having arrived outside a normal admission round where—\n(i) at the time of his arrival in the authority’s area he does not fall within a relevant age group; or\n(ii) he does fall within a relevant age group but any application for his admission to a school falls to be considered after the time when the admission authority for the school in question have determined, in accordance with the school’s admission arrangement, which children in that age group are to be admitted to the school.\n(b) the reference to “looked after children” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/192",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Admission Forums) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2900/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:23.410757+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}