. The majority of children who are being accommodated by the local authority will be doing so with the full agreement of those who have parental responsibility for them. In practice, children are accommodated because there are particularly difficult family circumstances which mean that they cannot be cared for in their normal family environment. While they are accommodated, the child’s parents (or guardians) retain full parental responsibility and may, at any time, remove them from local authority provided accommodation. Some looked-after children are the subject of a care order. If the local authority believes that a child has suffered or is likely to suffer “significant harm” if they remain with their birth family, then they can apply to the courts for a care order to assume parental responsibility for the child. While it is possible that children on care orders live with their 42 parents or other family members if that is what the courts decide, most will live with foster carers. Admission requirements Regulations made under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 require admission authorities for maintained schools to give looked-after children highest priority in their admission arrangements. The School Admissions Code places this same requirement on academies and, in addition, requires maintained schools and academies to also give previously looked-after children highest priority in their admission arrangements. These provisions help ensure that looked-after and previously looked- after children obtain a place at their preferred schools. Such children must take precedence over those on a waiting list and cannot be refused a place because of having challenging behaviour. Under the Code, previously looked-after children are those who were looked after by a local