Complaint Outcomes: Education archive 2007-08

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (06C06190)
Three year failure to provide appropriate educational provision for a boy with special needs.

27 March 2008

Wolverhampton Girls’ High School (07B02334)
Serious shortcomings in the conduct of school admission appeals.

20 February 2008

King David Primary School, Liverpool (07C03519)
School admission criteria were not “objective, clear and fair”.

24 January 2008

All Saints Benhilton Church of England Primary School, Sutton (07B04448 + two others)
Parents not informed why school place applications were refused, so were at considerable disadvantage when making appeals.

10 January 2008

Lancashire County Council (06C02934)
Failure to consider duty under the Disability Discrimination Act when refusing to provide help with school transport for a child after she developed mobility problems.

20 November 2007

The Judd School, Tonbridge (06A02033 + one other) and The Skinners’ School, Royal Tunbridge Wells (06A04366 + one other)
Parents’ appeals against the refusal of places for their sons at two Grammar schools were not considered in a fair and impartial manner.

31 October 2007

Bushey Hall School (06A14354) & Hertfordshire County Council (06/A/11234)
Boy missed 14 months' schooling because of failures by Council and School.

11 September 2007

East Sussex County Council (05A15425)
Failure to provide for a boy’s special educational needs for over two years.

13 August 2007

Northampton School for Boys (06B01255 + 2 others)
Admission policies not objective, and procedures fundamentally flawed.

19 July 2007

Cornwall County Council (06B04337)
Failure to provide for boy's special educational needs after being criticised for the same failures in an earlier Ombudsman’s report.

18 July 2007

St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School, Dulwich (06B04757, 05239)
School admission criteria not properly applied - wrong prioritisation of parishes.

27 June 2007

Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Faversham (06A03575 + 9 others)
The parents of ten children were denied the opportunity to have their school admission appeals considered in a fair and sensitive manner.

14 May 2007

Reading Borough Council (06A03735) and New Christ Church Primary School (06A11765)
Delay in admitting a five-year-old boy with special educational needs to school.

03 May 2007