{"id":68849,"date":"2016-03-22T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2bf5eedfd80302a60ecd4d09974b4b0f"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:20:45","slug":"news-story-new-chief-schools-adjudicator-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68849","title":{"rendered":"News story: New Chief Schools Adjudicator appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Secretary of State for Education has approved the appointment of Shan Scott as Chief Schools Adjudicator.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Scott has served as an adjudicator for 3 years and brings with her a wide range of educational knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n<p>She has been appointed for a 3-year period, with effect from 4 April 2016, and takes over from Dr Elizabeth Passmore, who has retired.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) helps to clarify the legal position on admissions policies in schools. Its other responsibilities include settling disputes about school organisation proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The schools adjudicators work independently from the Department for Education but are appointed by the Secretary of State for Education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan has approved the appointment of Shan Scott as Chief Schools Adjudicator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}