Complaint Outcomes: Education archive 2005-06
Dunraven School, Streatham (05B06021 + 2 others)
Administrative shortcomings in School's appeal process.
30 March 2006
Leeds City C (05C11366)
Failure to provides enough places at a new academy for pupils from a school that had closed.
29 March 2006
Cornwall County Council (04B07871)
Failure to provide speech and language therapy in accordance with boy's statement of special educational needs.
22 March 2006
St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School, Gravesend (05A02672)
Fault in the way the Governors administered the School's admissions criteria.
02 March 2006
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (05B03214)
Failure to take steps to overcome computer system failure and ensure that school admission arrangements were co-ordinated with neighbouring education authorities.
14 February 2006
Islamia Primary School, Brondesbury Park (04A15454 + 1 other)
Concern that admissions criteria are not clear, objective and transparent.
08 February 2006
Northampton School for Boys (05B03822)
Faults in admission process for school with co-educational sixth form, and in conduct of appeal hearing.
31 January 2006
Manchester City Council (05C00426)
Failure to take Government Code of Practice into account when adopting admission policy that discriminated against pupils living outside the City.
19 January 2006
Torbay Borough Council (04B15454)
Failure to provide education for boy who had been excluded from school.
12 January 2006
London Borough of Redbridge (05A02446)
Five-month delay in arranging appeal against refusal of school place.
08 December 2005
Campion School, Hornchurch (05A04911 + 3 others)
Wrongly viewing school admission criteria as a subjective competition between families on who presented most evidence of religous commitment.
28 November 2005
Coopers’ Company & Coborn School, Upminster (05A03766 + 7 others)
School's admission criteria not 'clear, fair and objective' - child wrongly refused a place.
28 November 2005
Islamia Primary School, Brondesbury Park (Further report 03A11014 + 2 others)
Ombudsman not satisfied with Governors'response to his first report finding maladministration causing injustice on three school admissions complaints.
14 November 2005
Essex County Council (04A05213)
Failure to handle a late application for a school place in line with Government guidance.
27 October 2005
Guru Nanak Sikh Secondary School, Hayes (05A00044 + 1 other)
Failure to deal with admission applications objectively and fairly.
18 October 2005
Doncaster MBC (05C01531 & 4 others)
Failure to properly investigate claims of fraudulent applications.
30 September 2005
Surrey County Council (04A00818 + 1 other)
Failure to provide adequate support or education for autistic child with very challenging behaviour.
29 September 2005
London Borough of Greenwich (04B01890)
Failure to operate mechanisms to prevent exclusion of pupils with special needs, and then failure to provide education to boy once he was excluded.
29 September 2005
Warwickshire County Council (03B16496 + one other)
Failure to notify a parent that the Council would cease to maintain her son's statement of special educational needs, and delay in taking decision to reinstate funding of his education.
26 September 2005
South Gloucestershire Council (04B06411)
Failure to treat an infant school appeal properly.
29 June 2005
Birmingham City C (03C15183)
Failure to provide a suitable school and an escort to and from it for a child with special educational needs.
13 June 2005