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Special free schools: local authority applications for waves 3 and 4

List of local authorities who applied to open a special free school in waves 3 and 4, and those who were successful.

From:
Department for Education
Published
24 November 2022
Last updated
16 May 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Local authority applications to open a special free school: waves 3 and 4

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Lists showing:

  • local authorities who submitted an application to the Department for Education to open a new special free school in waves 3 and 4
  • successful local authorities for waves 3 and 4 and the proposed SEND designation for the school
  • successful trusts and the proposed name of each school for wave 3

Updates to this page

Published 24 November 2022
Last updated 16 May 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated ‘Local authority applications to open a special free school: waves 3 and 4’ with information for ‘Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole’, ‘Cheshire East’ ‘Herefordshire’, ‘Walsall’ and ‘Westmorland and Furness’.

  2. Updated to include successful local authorities for wave 4 applications.

  3. Updated 'Local authority applications to open a special free school: 2022' to include 'Name of approved trust' and 'Name of proposed school'.

  4. Updated 'Local authority applications to open a special free school: 2022' to include a list of the local authorities whose applications were successful in the 2022 special free schools wave.

  5. First published.

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