{"id":245315,"date":"2026-04-23T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolsweek.co.uk\/?p=245315"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:14:31","slug":"shan-scott-former-chief-schools-adjudicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolsweek.co.uk\/shan-scott-former-chief-schools-adjudicator\/","title":{"rendered":"Shan Scott, former chief schools adjudicator"},"content":{"rendered":"

School adjudicators are prolific. Most days the team of part-time experts publishes rulings on the latest admissions rows, often confronting contentious issues such as fair banding and academy-council frictions.<\/p>\n

Now retired, the career civil servant Shan Scott wants to shed light on the body\u2019s inner workings and have her say on Labour\u2019s shake-up of the school system.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the release of the government\u2019s white paper<\/a>, she argues admissions have taken a backseat.<\/p>","protected":true},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The retired admissions chief has her say on Labour\u2019s shake-up of the school system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311204,"featured_media":245176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1112],"post-theme":[3420],"class_list":["post-245315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","tag-admissions","post-theme-profile"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t