Closed consultation

Faith school designation reforms

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 1 May 2024

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

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Summary

We are seeking views on religious designation reforms for new special academies and new and existing free schools.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
12:01am on 1 May 2024 to 11:59pm on 20 June 2024

Consultation description

This consultation is seeking views on 2 policy proposals:

• to remove the 50% cap on faith admissions, with the aim of enabling all faith groups to apply to open new faith free schools
• to allow new special academies and existing special academies with a recognised faith ethos to apply to be designated as having a religious character

Published 1 May 2024