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Complaint Outcomes: Education archive 2009-10

 

Warwickshire County Council (09 005 338)
A Council school admission appeal panel failed to consider properly whether a school was full.

25 March 2010

Reading School (08 011 742)
An appeal panel for Reading School mishandled an appeal against the refusal of a place at the School for a boy with a hearing problem.

28 January 2010

Slough Grammar School (08 013 094 and one other FR)
The Ombudsman is not satisfied with the response of Slough Grammar School to a report he issued earlier this year criticising its mishandling of school admission appeals.

19 November 2009

Ravensbourne School, Bromley (08 014 474)
There were "significant breaches" of the School Admission Appeals Code in an appeal conducted at Ravensbourne School.

28 September 2009

Essex County Council (08 014 997)
The Council delayed unnecessarily in providing an assessment for a girl with special educational needs.

28 September 2009

London Borough of Croydon (07B04696 + one other)
The Council failed to recognise a family’s needs over a period of four years.

24 September 2009

former Northumberland County Council (08 008 086 and three others)
Admission appeals for a county primary school were not handled properly.

18 August 2009

London Borough of Redbridge (08 017 856)
The Council failed to provide specialist occupational therapy for a boy as required by his statement of special educational needs.

06 August 2009

former Bedfordshire County Council (07B12913)
The Council failed to provide education for a girl with special educational needs for over a year,

30 June 2009

Slough Grammar School (08 013 094 and one other)
There were significant faults in the handling of admission appeals.

30 June 2009

Suffolk County Council (07A17366)
A boy with special educational needs missed a year of appropriate schooling because the Council delayed in assessing his needs.

30 June 2009

Isle of Wight Council (08 001 991)
Isle of Wight Council failed to provide education for a boy with special needs for 16 months.

12 June 2009

St Peter's Collegiate C of E School, Wolverhampton (07B03178 FR)
The School Governors have refused to provide a parent with a new admission appeal to remedy fault found by the Ombudsman.

12 May 2009

Nottingham City Council (08 010 435)
An officer representing the Council unfairly brought photographs to an admission appeal to support the school’s case.

07 May 2009