ANNEX A

Glossary

Set out below is an explanation of terms commonly used in this particular scheme:

•	“The LEA” – Oxfordshire County Council acting in its capacity as a local education authority

•	“The LEA area” means the area in respect of which the LEA are the local education authority

•	“The schools” – all maintained schools (other than special schools) which are in the LEA area, and which will be admitting pupils into the first year of secondary education in the specified year.

•	“VA schools” – schools which are voluntary aided schools

•	“Foundation schools” – schools which have foundation status

•	“Maintained schools” – community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools

•	“Admission authority” – the body responsible for setting and applying admission rules for a school or schools (in the case of community or voluntary controlled schools this is the local education authority but for voluntary aided and foundation schools it is the individual school’s governing body

•	“The specified year” - the school year beginning at or about the beginning of September 2005

•	“Admission arrangements for the specified year” – the arrangements for a particular school or schools which determine the procedures and decision-making for admitting pupils to the school(s) during the specified year

•	“CAF (Secondary)” and CAF (In-Year Secondary) – the application forms supplied by the LEA on paper or electronically which will be used by all Oxfordshire parent/carers seeking a place for their child in a maintained school in Oxfordshire or beyond