School admissions archive 2019-2020


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  • Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (19 007 883)

    Statement Upheld School admissions 26-Feb-2020

    Summary: the complainant says the Council failed to properly consider her application for a school place and properly conduct the appeal against its decision. The Council says it correctly applied the admissions policy and the appeal panel properly considered the appeal. The Ombudsman finds the appeal panel acted with fault. The Ombudsman recommends and the Council agrees to arranging a fresh appeal hearing.

  • Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (19 018 232)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 20-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint about the refusal of admission to the complainant’s preferred school for her daughter. This is because there is no evidence of fault in the way that the Independent Appeal Panel (IAP) considering the appeal made its decision.

  • Suffolk County Council (19 014 303)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 18-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman cannot investigate this complaint about the actions of the Council in relation to the application by the complainant’s ex-partner to change their child’s school. This is because the matter was considered by a court and is out of our jurisdiction.

  • Coventry City Council (19 018 138)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 15-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate Miss B’s complaint about the decision to refuse her appeal for a school place for her daughter. This is because it is unlikely we would find fault on the Council’s part.

  • London Borough of Bexley (19 018 411)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 14-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s 11+ test review process. This is because the complainant has a right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel if his daughter is refused a place at the grammar school that he wants her to attend, and it is reasonable to expect him to use it.

  • Liverpool City Council (19 006 348)

    Statement Upheld School admissions 12-Feb-2020

    Summary: Mrs B, complains the Council did not deal correctly with her on-time application for a reception class place for her child, or with her appeal for a place at a school for which she made a late application. The Ombudsman finds no fault in the way the appeal was dealt with, but some fault in how the on-time application was dealt with. However, that fault did not lead to injustice for Mrs B.

  • Leeds City Council (19 017 831)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 12-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint about an Independent Appeal Panel (IAP)’s decision not to uphold the complainant’s appeal regarding a place for his daughter at his preferred secondary school, and the Council’s decision not to hold a new appeal hearing. This is because it is unlikely we would find fault by either the IAP or the Council in the way they made their decisions.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council (19 011 093)

    Statement Not upheld School admissions 11-Feb-2020

    Summary: Mr and Mrs B complain that the Council did not properly deal with a school admissions appeal. The Council was not at fault.

  • Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds (19 011 145)

    Statement Not upheld School admissions 10-Feb-2020

    Summary: Ms X complained the admissions appeals panel did not properly consider her child, Y’s appeal for a place at School C. She said that as a result, Y cannot go to school and is not currently receiving an education. The Ombudsman does not find fault in how the admissions appeal panel considered the appeal.

  • Kent County Council (19 017 063)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries School admissions 05-Feb-2020

    Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s 11+ test review process. This is because the complainant has a right of appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel if his daughter is refused a place at the grammar school that he wants her to attend, and it is reasonable to expect him to use it.

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