Local authorities seeking proposers contains details of all local authorities seeking proposers to establish a new academy or free school.
It includes the:
name of the local authority
location of the new school
phase of education
capacity of the school
sponsor application closing date
link to the local authority specification and application form
Section 6A approved and under consideration schools contains details of:
academies and free schools that have approval
free schools that do not yet have approval under the academies and free school presumption section of the Education and Inspections Act 2006
It includes the:
name of the local authority
proposed location of the school at the time of approval
phase of education
proposed opening date at the time of approval (which can change)
Read the free school presumption guidance for further information about the process for establishing new schools.
Updates to this page
Published 16 December 2013 Last updated 30 October 2024 +show all updates
Added a primary school proposal from Peterborough City Council to 'Local authorities seeking proposers' and removed a primary project in Didcot, Oxfordshire the competition closed on 25 October. Added a primary project in Didcot, Oxfordshire to 'Section 6a approved and under consideration spreadsheet'.
Updated 'Local authorities seeking proposers' with details of a proposal from Oxfordshire County Council.
Sixteen schools on the Section 6A approved and under consideration spreadsheet have recently opened. We have edited their entries and updated their names. We have also added Warfield All Saints, which is now under consideration. We have taken the Warfield project off of the local authorities seeking proposers spreadsheet, where we have also added a project in Bath and North East Somerset.
Added to the 'Schools under consideration' list of the 'Section 6a approved and under consideration' spreadsheet: a special secondary school in Warfield (Bracknell Forest). Removed from the 'Local authorities seeking proposers' spreadsheet and added to 'Schools under consideration': a primary school in Chester (Cheshire West and Chester), an all-through special school in Romford (Havering), a first school at Foxlydiate (Worcestershire) and a primary school in Hartland Village (Hampshire). Moved from 'Schools under consideration' to 'Schools approved': primary schools in Burleyfields (Staffordshire) and Weston Super Mare (North Somerset).
On Local authorities seeking proposers', 2 primary projects have been removed: St Johns Grange in Lichfield (Staffordshire) and Henley Gate in Ipswich (Suffolk). Foxlydiate first school, Redditch (Worcestershire) and Hartland Village primary project, Fleet (Hampshire) have been added. On 'Section 6A approved and under consideration schools', we have added 2 primary projects to 'Schools under consideration: St John's Grange in Lichfield and Henley Gate in Ipswich. Schools that have moved from 'Schools under consideration' to 'Schools approved' are Greenwich Special Free School, Thanington Primary School (Kent), Ravensdale Special School Mansfield (Nottinghamshire) and 3 primary schools in Buckinghamshire: Hampden Fields, Salden Chase in South West Milton Keynes and Orchard Green in Kingsbrook.
Updated 'Local authorities seeking proposers' to add a primary school in Staffordshire.
On the details of 'local authorities seeking proposers' spreadsheet an all-through special school in Havering has been added. On the section '6a approved and under consideration schools' spreadsheet the Coalville primary project has been moved from schools under consideration to schools approved.
Updated 'Local authorities seeking proposers' to add a primary school in Cheshire West and Chester. Updated 'Section 6A approved and under consideration schools' to move Gloucester Special School from schools under consideration to schools approved.
Updated 'Local authorities seeking proposers': a primary school in Ipswich has been added.
Two primary school proposals are now under consideration in Staffordshire, at St Johns Grange, Lichfield and Burleyfields, Stafford. An all-through special school in Greenwich is also under consideration. Overstone Leys primary school in West Northamptonshire and an all-through special school in Eastleigh, in Hampshire, have been approved. We have removed the local authorities seeking proposers spreadsheets, as there are currently no entries.
Weston-super-Mare primary proposal, Ravensdale special school Mansfield proposal, and Harrogate special school proposal have been removed from 'Local authorities seeking proposers' and added to 'Section 6A approved and under consideration schools'.
In 'local authorities seeking proposers', an all-through special school in Greenwich has been added.
On 'Local authorities seeking proposers': Coalville primary project in Leicestershire has been removed. St Johns Grange and Lichfield and Burleyfields in Staffordshire have been added. On 'Section 6A approved and under consideration schools': Coalville primary project in Leicestershire has been added to schools under consideration.
