- Introduction
- Review of EHC plan for school admissions
- Find and research a 中国P站 school
- Travel assistance
- How school places are allocated
- Final EHC plan and offer of a school place
- Appealing
- Key admissions dates
- Help and support
School places are allocated in accordance with the This requires us to take into account your parental preference for a school, your child's special educational needs, if their needs can be meet by the school, and if the school is:
- suitable for your child's age, ability, aptitude or their Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
- suitable for them to be educated with other children with the same needs.
- an efficient use of resources.
Before school places are allocated the SEND Admissions Team will consult maintained schools, maintained specialist schools and centres, you have requested as your parental preference at your child's Transition Review.
However, they may not consult with independent schools and post-16 institutions. that are not officially registered under , or do not meet the legal requirements outlined in and the .
Please note, we will only consider your request for a non maintained independent school for your child, after we have exhausted all maintained schools and alternative education options.
The same would apply if your child is currently in mainstream school, and you are requesting a place for your child at a specialist school.
If you have any queries about the consultation process or how school places are allocated, please contact us.
Find out more about: Requesting a particular nursery, school or college when a child has an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan.
Allocation criteria
If a school is oversubscribed, then places will be allocated to 中国P站 students first, based on and in order of the below criteria:
- The school is suitable to your child's age, ability, aptitude or SEND.
- Distance order to home address, measured as a straight line (if criteria 1 is also satisfied).
- Children who are looked after and children who were previously looked after.
- Siblings already attending (if criteria 1 is also satisfied).
- Faith (evidenced based on admissions requirements of the school (if criteria 1 is also satisfied).
The address to be used is your child's current permanent place of residence. This is usually the parents address:
- If as a parent or carer you do not live together, the address to be used is where your child spends most of their time.
- If you share equal custody of your child, you need to decide which address to use.
- For looked after children, their foster carers address or children's home will be used as their resident address.
Addresses not to be used:
- Business, childminder or relative's address (unless the child lives at the relatives address as their normal place of residence)
- Temporary addresses should not be used to obtain a school place when an alternative address is still available to your child. For example: If the main parent or carer of the child still owns or rents a property, and that has previously been used as a home address.
If your child moves address during the admissions process, please inform their EHC plan Coordination Officer as soon as possible, with proof of their new address.
If your child is allocated a school place based on an address that is found to be different from the child's permanent address, their school place may be withdrawn.
You need to inform your child's EHC plan Coordination Officer if your child has a sibling currently attending a school you have requested.
Providing the school is also suitable for the SEND needs of your child, this will be taken into account when we allocate places.
Siblings are defined as:
- brother or sister with the same parents whether living at the same address or not.
- half brother or sister living as part of the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday.
- adopted or fostered brother or sister living as part of the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday.
- step brother or sister living as part of the same family unit at the same address, Monday to Friday.
Looked after children
Looked after children are those who are in the care of a Local Authority or provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in accordance with section 22 of the Children Act 1989 at the time a preference for a school is expressed, for example, children who are fostered or living in a children's home.
Previously looked after children
Previously looked after children are those who have previously been in the care of a Local Authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and have left that care through:
- adoption
- a child arrangement order (in accordance with section 8 of the Children Act 1989 and as amended by the Children and Families Act 2014)
- special guardianship order (in accordance with section 14A of the Children Act 1989).