school admission appeals

[gedk]

Hi all, have just received a letter this morning informing me that my child has not been allocated a place at our first choice primary school. Naturally I'm very upset and intend on appealing against the decision. I have been trawling the internet for hours trying to find more information about the appeals procedure and get some tips in helping me to prepare the appeal request however I seem to be getting nowhere fast! Does anybody know of any good websites which will give me some good advice or helpful tips or can anybody who has gone through the process tell me how it went. My son is 3 and currently at the nursery of our preferred school but has been denied a place in the reception class starting in September 2008. Thanks for any help / advice you can offer

[Barmaid]

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/

you can get the Schools Admissions Code of Practice and the Schools Admission Appeals Code of Practice.

If your child has been refused a place on infant class size grounds (ie on the basis that by the end of the year the total number in the class will exceed 30 - the law states that there can only be 30 pupils in Yr R or Yr 1 without the school having to take qualifying measures), the only grounds on which you can appeal are that 1) there has been some mal administration and 2) that the education authority has made a decision that no reasonable education authority would make - something along the lines of splitting up twins. Distance from school, spliting up siblings etc does not equate to unreasonableness.