School Admissions - Appeals (Combined Schools)
Any applicant who is refused admission to a school has a right of appeal to an Independent Appeals Panel. Each admission authority deals with its own appeals. For voluntary aided schools this is the governing body and for community and voluntary controlled schools this is the Borough of Poole. Parents should be aware that there are limited grounds for appeal to infant classes (Years R, 1 and 2). Please contact The School Admissions Team in Children & Young People's Integrated Services for further information.
Withdrawing an offer of a place.
There could be two reasons why a place may be withdrawn:
a) Where, after making an offer of a school place, an admissions authority finds evidence of fraudulent or intentionally misleading information on an application form, the result of which is that an applicant with a stronger claim is denied a place at a school, the local authority may withdraw the offer of the place and consider the application afresh using the correct information.
b) Where applicants are offered a place at a school and fail to accept the place by the date specified, the offer may be withdrawn.
Oversubscription criteria in school admission policies.
Each admission authority adopts its own admissions policy for the academic year. However the only time these policies are used is when a school receives more applications than it has places available. In these circumstances the admission authorities apply what is known as their "oversubscription" criteria to decide who should be offered a place. Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs issued by a local authority naming a specific school where a pupil should receive his/her education will be admitted to any maintained school before preferences are considered for admission in September.
The criteria are agreed by the Admission Authority for the school and are required to be in line with the School Admissions Code of Practice. For Community and Voluntary Controlled schools the admission authority is the local authority, for Foundation and Voluntary Aided schools it is the Governing Body of the school.
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