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Statutory Requirements

As an academy in England, St Paul’s Catholic College is required to publish specific information on its website as stipulated by the UK government.

This page outlines how St Paul’s Catholic College meets those statutory requirements and provides direct links to the content on this website. The full list of statutory requirements can be found on the government’s website under ‘What academies and further education colleges must or should publish online’.  

Admission Arrangements

What academy trusts must publish

Academy trusts must publish their admission arrangements to comply with the:

  • school admissions code
  • school admission appeals code

 

September admissions – normal point of entry

By 15 March each year, the trust must publish on its website the admission arrangements for children who will be starting school at the normal point of entry in September of the following year. It must retain them there for the whole of the academic year in which offers for places are made.

The admission arrangements must explain:

  • how the trust considers applications for places in each relevant age group (that is, the age group in which children are normally admitted to its schools) 
  • how many children the trust intends to admit in each relevant age group (known as the published admission number, or PAN) 
  • what a parent or carer needs to do if they want to apply for their child to attend one of the trust’s schools 
  • how the trust allocates places if there are more applicants than places available

Where applicable, the trust must also explain how:

  • children applying to a selective school are selected for a place 
  • a parent or carer of a primary-age child can request that a school delay or defer their child’s entry to reception, and the process for requesting admission outside the normal age group 
  • many external applicants a school intends to admit into the sixth form

In-year admissions

By 31 August each year, the school must publish how it will manage in-year applications for places (that is, applications for places in the middle of a school year, or to start in the September of a year which is not the normal point of entry).

If the governing body manages those applications, the school must provide:

  • an application form
  • supplementary information, if necessary

If the local authority manages those applications, the school must publish a link to the in-year co-ordination scheme.

Admission appeals

By 28 February each year, the trust must publish a timetable setting out how it will organise and hear admission appeals.

This timetable must:

  • include a deadline that allows a parent or carer at least 20 school days from the date of notification that their application was unsuccessful to prepare and lodge a written appeal 
  • include reasonable deadlines for:
    • a parent or carer to submit additional evidence 
    • admission authorities to submit their evidence 
    • the clerk to send appeal papers to the panel and parties 
  • ensure that a parent or carer lodging an appeal receives at least 10 school days’ notice of their appeal hearing 
  • ensure that decision letters are sent within 5 school days of the hearing, wherever possible

Annual reports and accounts

What academy trusts must publish

Academy trusts must publish their audited annual report and accounts on their website by 31 January each year. Guidance is available in the academy trust handbook.

Behaviour Policy

What academies should publish

Academies should publish their behaviour policy, including their anti-bullying strategy. Guidance on developing and publishing a behaviour policy is available.

Careers Programme Information

What secondary academies, 16 to 19 academies and FE colleges should publish

Secondary academies, 16 to 19 academies and FE colleges should publish information about how they deliver careers guidance to years 7 to 13, as appropriate to their setting and required by their funding or accountability agreement.

For the current academic year, this should include:

  • the name and contact details of their careers lead
  • a summary of the careers programme, including details of how young people, parents, carers, teachers and employers can access information about it
  • how the academy or college measures and assesses the programme’s impact on young people
  • the date by which it will review this information

Charging & Remissions Policies

What academies should publish 

Academies should publish their:

  • charging policy, giving details of activities for which they will charge parents and carers
  • remissions policy, giving details of the circumstances in which they will wholly or partly waive any charge they would otherwise expect parents and carers to pay

 

Guidance on charging for school activities is available. Sections 449 to 462 of the Education Act 1996 set out the law on charging in schools maintained by local authorities. Academies are required by their funding agreement to comply.

Complaints Policy

What academy schools and trusts must make available

All academies and trusts (with the exception of 16-19 academies) must have a complaints procedure that meets the requirements in the standard at the Education (Independent School Standards (England) Regulations 2014 Schedule 1, Part 7. The complaints procedure must be available to parents and carers of children attending an academy.

What academy schools must publish

Academy schools must publish the details of any arrangements for handling complaints from parents and carers about the support they provide for pupils with special educational needs (SEN). They must do this as part of their SEN information report.

What academy trusts and FE colleges must publish

Academy trusts must publish details of their whistleblowing procedure.

Contact Details

What academies and FE colleges should publish

Academies and FE colleges should publish:

  • their postal address
  • their telephone number
  • the name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and carers, and the public
  • the name of their headteacher or principal
  • the name and contact details of the chair of their governing body, if applicable
  • the contact details of their academy trust and a link to its website, if applicable

What mainstream academy schools must publish

Mainstream academy schools must also publish in their SEN information report the name and contact details of their special educational needs co-ordinator.

Curriculum

What all academies must publish

Academies must publish their policy on relationships education or relationships and sex education. They should consult parents and carers when developing and reviewing it. It must meet pupils’, parents’ and carers’ needs, and reflect the community the academy serves.

What all academies should publish 

All academies should publish:

  • the content of the curriculum in each academic year for every subject, including mandatory subjects such as religious education (RE) – this applies even if it is taught as part of another subject or known by another name
  • information to make parents and carers aware they have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE
  • how parents, carers or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum

Alongside the content of their music curriculum, all academies are expected to publish information about their music development plan. 

Where applicable, they should also publish a list of the:

  • key stage 4 courses, including GCSEs, available
  • 16 to 19 qualifications they offer

Academies must prepare an accessibility plan that sets out how, over time, they will increase the extent to which disabled pupils participate in the curriculum.

What academies with 16 to 19 provision should publish

Academies with 16 to 19 provision should also publish information on how their curriculum meets the 16 to 19 study programme requirements.

Ethos & Values

What academies and FE colleges should publish

Academies and FE colleges should publish a statement setting out their ethos and values.

Ofsted Reports

What academies should publish

Academies should publish either a:

  • a copy of your school’s most recent Ofsted report
  • link to the report on the Ofsted website

Pay Gap Reporting

What academy trusts, academies and FE colleges with fewer than 250 employees should publish

Academy trusts, academies and FE colleges with fewer than 250 employees:

  • are not required to comply with the regulations, but
  • should give serious consideration to the business benefits of doing so

 

Guidance on who counts as an employee is available.

For academy trusts, academies and FE colleges interested in looking at their ethnicity pay gap, guidance for employers on voluntary ethnicity pay reporting is also available.

Public Sector Equality Duty

What academies and FE colleges must publish

Academies and FE colleges must publish:

  • details of how they comply with the public sector equality duty, updating this every year
  • their equality objectives, updating these at least every 4 years

 

The Equality Act 2010: advice for schools provides guidance on how an academy school can show it has complied, as required by the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017.

Pupil Premium

What academies must publish

Academies that receive pupil premium funding must publish a strategy statement on their school website by 31 December each year.

It must explain:

  • how the academy is spending its pupil premium funding
  • the education outcomes which disadvantaged pupils are achieving

Academies must publish their statement in the DfE template provided on the pupil premium guidance page.

DfE recommends that academies plan their pupil premium spending over 3 years. If they do so, they must still update their statement annually to reflect:

  • their spending activity for the current academic year
  • the impact of pupil premium in the previous academic year

Remote Education

What academies should publish

Academies should publish information about their remote education provision. 

School Opening Hours

What academies should publish

Academies should publish:

  • official start time of the compulsory school day
  • official end time of the compulsory school day
  • total time this amounts to in a typical week, including breaks but not after-school activities

School Uniform

What academies should publish

Academies whose pupils are required to wear a uniform should publish an easily understandable policy on their website, in line with statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms.

It should include information about:

  • optional or required items
  • items that will be worn only at certain times of year (for example, winter or summer uniform)
  • items that must be branded or can be generic
  • whether items can be bought only from a specific retailer or more widely
  • where second-hand uniform can be purchased

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

What academy schools must publish

Academy schools must publish an SEN information report. It should be updated annually and any changes to the information occurring during the year should be updated as soon as possible.

To comply with section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, the report must contain:

  • the SEN information specified in Schedule 1 to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 – statutory guidance is available in paragraphs 6.79 to 6.82 of the SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
  • additional information about the:
    • arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils
    • steps the school has taken to prevent disabled pupils being treated less favourably than other pupils
    • facilities it provides to help disabled pupils access the school
    • accessibility plan it has prepared under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 to:
      • increase the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the curriculum
      • improve the physical environment to increase the extent to which disabled pupils can take advantage of the educational benefits, facilities or services provided or offered
      • improve the way disabled pupils can access information that is easily accessible to pupils who are not disabled

Test, Exam and Assessment Results

What all academies should publish

All academies should publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and to their own performance measures page on it.  

Key stage 4

Academies with key stage 4 pupils should publish their most recent key stage 4 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State, comprising:

  • their Progress 8 score
  • the percentage of their pupils achieving a grade 5 or above in GCSE English and GCSE maths
  • their Attainment 8 score
  • the percentage of their pupils staying in education or going into employment after key stage 4
  • the percentage of their pupils who were entered for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
  • their EBacc average point score (APS)

Key stage 5 (16 to 18)

Academies and FE colleges with students aged 16 to 18 should publish their most recent 16 to 18 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State, comprising their students’ headline:

  • progress (value added) measures
  • attainment measures
  • retention measures
  • destination measures

They do not have to publish value added measures for the 2022 to 2023 academic year, as the Secretary of State is not publishing these.

They do not have to publish English and maths progress measures for the 2022 to 2023 or 2023 to 2024 academic years, as the Secretary of State is not publishing these.

Last updated:

8 October 2025.

Source What academies and further education colleges must or should publish online

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