A parent’s guide to Primary School Admissions 2021-22
This booklet describes Dudley Council’s arrangements for admitting children to primary schools in September 2021.
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A guide for parents
This booklet provides details of the admission arrangements that will operate at primary schools in the Dudley borough for admissions in September 2021.
We have also included general information which you may find useful.
If you would like further information about a particular school, a more detailed booklet (‘the school prospectus’) may be obtained direct from the individual primary school concerned. Other documents available direct from the school or online include the School Profile and inspection reports by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
Please pay particular attention to the timetable set out on Page 5, especially the closing date for applications, and also the specific detail given about each school’s admission arrangements that are set out from Page 14 onwards.
Local Authorities (LAs) are required to work with each other in relation to admission to Reception Class for all schools, whether the schools are in Dudley or in other boroughs. This means that each child will only receive one offer of a school place, which will be sent to them by the LA where they live.
We do our very best to find places for all children at their first preference primary school, but we cannot always do this. Overall for admissions in September 2020 we were able to meet 97% of one of the preferences expressed. Most disappointments are caused when parents select popular schools at some distance from their home address. However, whichever school your child attends in Dudley, you may be confident that the LA and the schoolwork closely to ensure your child will be educated to the highest standard.
Helen Ellis Acting Director of Children’s Services – Children’s Directorate The Council House, Priory Road, Dudley, West Midlands DY1 1HF
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Contents
Types of admission authorities operating in Dudley ...... 4 Admission to primary schools ...... 4 Deferred entry to reception class ...... 6 Delayed entry ...... 6 Process ...... 6 Online applications ...... 8 How can I contact the School Admissions Service ...... 10 Primary School admissions flowchart ...... 11 Admission policy for community and voluntary controlled primary schools in Dudley ...... 12 Admissions Policies for foundation, voluntary aided and academy primary schools...... 14 DEFINITION OF A “BAPTISED CATHOLIC” ...... 109 Example of preference allocations ...... 110 What are my rights if my application is unsuccessful ...... 111 What do I need to consider before expressing my preference ...... 112 Infant class size legislation ...... 113 Special educational need and the Children & Families Act 2014 ...... 114 Privacy Notice ...... 115 Details of all Dudley primary schools ...... 118 Addresses of neighbouring local authorities ...... 132 Useful contacts ...... 133 Notes ...... 134
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Types of admission authorities operating in Dudley Community and voluntary controlled schools Dudley Local Authority (LA) is the admissions authority, i.e. it has responsibility for deciding arrangements for admitting pupils to community schools, including the admissions criteria. The admissions policy for community and voluntary controlled schools has been confirmed following consultation with the governing bodies and Headteachers of all schools in the borough, as well as a number of other agencies. Catchment areas do not exist in the Dudley borough. See Pages 12-13 for full details of the admissions policy adopted for community and voluntary controlled schools. Foundation and voluntary aided schools The governing body is the admissions authority, i.e. it has responsibility for deciding the arrangements for admitting pupils as above. Academy schools Academies are public funded independent schools free from local authority and national Government control. They have the responsibility of setting their own admission arrangements and criteria. The school’s governing body is responsible for determining the admission and appeal arrangements for the academy. The individual school governing body is responsible for determining admissions and appeal arrangements for foundation and voluntary aided schools. You will find details of the various admissions policies adopted from Page 14 onwards. Please note that academy, foundation and voluntary aided schools in Dudley borough have separate admission policies. All schools in Dudley will consider applicants on an equal basis and will not give priority to first preferred applicants. If a child meets the admissions criteria for two or more schools included on the application form, the School Admissions Service will allocate the school that the parent ranked highest on their form. Please note that academies and voluntary aided schools in Dudley borough have separate admission policies and can be found from Page 14 onwards.
Admission to primary schools Admission point All children born between 1 September 2016 and 31 August 2017 will be admitted in September 2021. Can I choose which school to send my child to? You do not have the right to choose which school your child attends. Under current legislation, you have the right to express a preference. This preference must be met unless to do so would be prejudicial to effective education and/or prejudicial to the efficient use of resources at the preferred school, i.e. the admission of further pupils will be detrimental to the teaching and learning experiences of other children. Preference ranking All applications will be assessed against the relevant admission policies regardless of the order of preference. If a child meets the admissions criteria for two or more primary schools included on the application form, the school that the parent ranked highest on their form will be allocated. No school in
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Dudley will give priority to first preference applicants. Please see the example of how this works on Page 110. Places are not allocated on a first come, first served basis. You are therefore advised to assess the likelihood of your preferences being agreed under the school’s admissions policy before completing your application. The tables on Page 119 onwards will assist you with this. You should not assume that your child will get a place at a new school without you having to apply (even if you have an older child already attending). Also, if a school is very popular, there is no guarantee that your child will be allocated a place.
Important information Please note that registering your child early will not guarantee admission to the preferred school or give any advantage in the admissions process. Attendance at a nursery attached to a primary school will not guarantee admission to that particular primary school or give any advantage to the pupil in the admissions process. Registering at a nursery is a separate procedure to registering at a primary school. If your child attends a nursery unit, you should ensure that you register your child at your preferred primary school, as this is not an automatic procedure.
If there are persons with parental responsibility not residing at your child’s address, it is your responsibility to notify and/or consult them before expressing a preference for a primary school. If you are applying for an academy, foundation or voluntary aided school, you may be required to complete a supplementary form. Please check with the individual schools since this could affect the outcome of your application.
Important dates Online application available 1 October 2020 Return date of paper application forms 15 January 2021 by 5 pm * Return date of online applications 15 January 2021 by midnight Decision emails to parents 16 April 2021 after 2 pm Decision letters to parents 16 April 2021 by 2nd class post Appeals to be heard June/July 2021
* Failure to return your form by this date may affect the outcome of your application.
What is the coordinated scheme? Local Authorities (LAs) are required to co-ordinate primary admissions for all maintained (non-fee paying) schools. Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Staffordshire, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire (LAs) have agreed to co-ordinate applications for their schools.
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For full details of Dudley’s scheme, please contact the School Admissions Service on 0300 555 2345 or go to www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions. This will ensure all parents only receive one offer of a school place from their home LA.
Deferred entry to reception class Parents can request to defer the date their child is admitted to the school until later in the school year, but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age and not beyond the beginning of the final term of the school year for which the application was made. Where the parents wish, children may attend part-time until later in the school year, but not beyond the point at which they reach compulsory school age. Any Reception place offered following an application made for September 2021 will be withdrawn if the child does not take up that place by the first day of the summer term 2022. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls during the summer term, who wishes to defer their child’s admission until the beginning of the following academic year (when the child will have begun to be compulsory school age), will therefore need to make a separate in-year application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Please refer to the policy on admissions outside the chronological year group.
Delayed entry The LA has a policy in place for exceptional circumstances, the full details can be found at www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions. Please refer to the policy on admissions outside of the chronological year group.
Process General information It is important that you thoroughly read and understand ‘A Parents’ Guide to Primary School Admissions’ before completing any application form. Number of preferences You are able to state up to five preferences on your application and these should include all your preferred schools either in the Dudley borough or a school in a neighbouring local authority. You are strongly advised not to make only one school preference since it will not give you any advantage in the school admissions process. The Admissions Service will allow an additional late preference after offer day if you have been unsuccessful in being allocated a place at one of your original preferences – up to a maximum of 6 preferences. If you wish to add more than 6 preferences then you will have to remove one of your original preferences. How can I assess the likelihood of being allocated my preferred school? Statistical and historical information relating to admission at each school can be found on Page 119 onwards. Will I get priority for my first preferred school? All schools will consider applicants on an equal basis and will not give priority to first preference applicants. If a child meets the criteria for two or more schools included on the application form, the School Admissions Service will allocate the school that the parent ranked highest.
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Will I get priority for a school within my home LA? Under current legislation, the authority is unable to give priority to pupils who live within Dudley borough. All applications will be considered against the admissions policy of the school concerned, regardless of which borough the child resides in. I don’t live in Dudley borough. How do I apply for a Dudley primary school? You must include the school on the form provided by your own Local Authority. Please note there may be different closing dates and admissions policies in operation (see list on Page 132 for contact numbers of neighbouring Local Authorities). I live in Dudley. How do I apply for a primary school outside of Dudley borough? You must include the school on the form provided by Dudley Local Authority where you will be able to express up to five preferences for schools inside or outside of the Dudley borough. If you want to apply for a school outside the borough, you must obtain the information booklet from the relevant Local Authority (see list on Page 132 for contact numbers of neighbouring Local Authorities) to ensure that you understand the admissions policy for the school concerned. If you are successful in gaining a place at a school which is not maintained by Dudley Local Authority, the council will not assist you financially to enable your child to attend the school concerned. What happens if I do not return my application on time? If you do not complete and return an application, your child may not be allocated a school place until all those who did have been offered places. It is then possible that your preferred schools will be too full to admit your child. How can I get information about schools online? The School Admissions web Page will give links to school web sites and other web Pages giving information about schools (such as the Ofsted site www.ofsted.gov.uk). It will also include a copy of this information booklet. The process for considering medical applications Only applications that are supported by the child’s hospital consultant will be considered. Please see oversubscription criteria for more information. After the closing date for applications, a panel will be convened to consider the request and supportive information. The panel will consist of a number of professionals from Children’s Services. How to apply From 1 October 2020, if you live in the Dudley borough, you should either apply online at www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions or complete a paper application which is available on request from the School Admissions Service. You should state all of your school preferences up to a maximum of five in rank order. Important information Please note that places are not allocated on a first come, first served basis. You are therefore advised to assess the likelihood of your preferences being agreed under the school’s admissions policy before stating your preferences. You should not assume that your child will get a place at a new school without you having to apply (even if you have an older child attending the school already). Also, if a school is very popular, there is no guarantee that your child will be allocated a place.
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Online applications Why should I apply online? Some of the benefits of applying online are: • Email decision received after 2pm on day of offer • It is quick and easy to use • You can apply 24 hours a day, 7 days a week • There is no risk that your application will be lost in the post • You will receive an email confirmation that your application has been received • You can change your application up to the closing date by contacting the School Admissions Service • It is safe and secure When can I use the online system? The online system will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from 1 October 2020 until the closing date of 15 January 2021. Will my application be secure? Yes. The system has a series of security features that prevents others from seeing your details. Who makes the application? The person who has parental responsibility should submit the application for the child’s school place. If you need further advice about who should apply for your child’s school place, please contact the School Admissions Service at [email protected]. If there are persons with parental responsibility not residing at your child’s address, it is your responsibility to notify and/or consult with those other persons before expressing a preference for a primary school. Please note the School Admissions Service will only accept changes from the person who made the original request. What details will be requested? You will not be asked to give any more information than you would need to if you were making a paper application. If I can’t finish the application, may I go back to it later? Yes. You have until the closing date to complete and submit your application. Having made an electronic application, can I change my preferences or submit other information? You can make changes to your application right up to the closing date. In order to do this, you will need to contact the School Admissions Service at [email protected]. The Admissions Service will only accept changes from the person who made the application. How will I know that the changes have been logged? Every time you make or change your online application, you will receive an email confirming the status of your application. You can also check the status of your application when you log in to the system and select your existing record. However, once you application has been submitted and received by the Local Authority any changes you have sent direct to the School Admissions Service will not be shown on your on-line account.
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Should I send a paper copy as well? No. If you do submit an online application and a paper form, the last one received will supersede the first one and the school allocation will be made using the data on the last received form. Will I be told the result of my application electronically? Yes. On 16 April 2021 after 2pm. What do I need to do to apply online? The council offers free computer access at its libraries and Dudley Council Plus offices in Castle Street, Dudley. Local library staff will be able to help you. Some schools will also provide computer access. You should check with your local school to find out whether they provide this service. Paper applications Even though it may be quicker and easier to apply online, paper applications can still be made available. Please phone the School Admissions Service on 0300 555 2345 to request a paper application form. It is advisable that parents check with the School Admissions Service to ensure that their application form has been received before the closing date. You are advised to return your form either by hand to Dudley Council Plus, 259 Castle Street, Dudley, DY1 1LQ asking for a receipt, or return it by recorded delivery. The council will not accept responsibility for lost forms unless it has been sent by recorded delivery or you have a valid receipt. What happens if I move house after I have completed an application form? You will need to provide documentary evidence to confirm this. A change of address will be considered up to 31 March 2021 (only applies to Dudley residents). After that date, it may not be possible for the new address to be considered for allocation purposes. Please also see Pages 112 - 113. Please note: if your child’s permanent residence changes at any point from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021, it is the parents’ responsibility to notify the LA immediately. You must do this even if you have notified your child’s school/nursery. If you fail to do so, this may result in any offer of a school place being withdrawn. This has occurred previously. Late applications If you do not apply for a place, your child may not be allocated a school place until all those who did apply on time have been offered places. It is then possible that your preferred schools will be too full to admit your child. Preferences that are received after the final closing date (15 January 2021) will be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. However, there will be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. Where the exceptional circumstances are such that the parent could not have reasonably submitted the application within the deadline, it will be considered along with all other applicants. In each circumstance, supporting documentary evidence must be provided by the parent/carer at the time of application. Repeat applications It is not the Local Authority’s Policy to consider repeat applications in the same academic year unless there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant.
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Admission of children outside of their normal age group Parents may seek a place for their child outside of their normal age group, for example, if the child is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Parents should make their application to the Local Authority setting out the reasons why they believe their child should be taught outside of their chronological age group. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age explaining why it is in the child’s best interest to be admitted outside of their normal age. This may include information such as professional evidence as to why this is the case and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an appropriate course of action will be made by the Local Authority, who will take into account the circumstances of the case. Parents do not have the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Please refer to the LA Policy relating to admitting a child outside their chronological age, which can be found at www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions. Currently living abroad and wanting admission into a school Parents are advised that when entering the United Kingdom that they check their visas permit them to access a state funded school. Waiting lists If a community or voluntary controlled school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on the waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation of places until 31 August 2022. Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available there. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year, i.e. they can go up and down the list. Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list, i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. When will I know the outcome of my application? Parents will be informed of the decision relating to their application in writing, posted 2nd class, on 16 April 2021. If you apply online, you will receive notification by email on 16 April 2021 after 2pm. Can the admissions authority withdraw the offer of a school place once it has been made? An admissions authority can withdraw the offer of a school place where a parent has obtained the place by providing the council with fraudulent or intentionally misleading information. This power has been used in previous years in Dudley where parents have provided false information.
How can I contact the School Admissions Service Telephone: 0300 555 2345 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions
Information is also available at the above website.
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Primary School admissions flowchart September 2021/22
15 January 2021 – Closing date for applications
Under-subscribed Over-subscribed Dudley schools Dudley schools
16 April 2021 16 April 2021 Offer letters posted to parents Offer/refusal letters posted to 2nd class parents 2nd class
Email decisions sent after 2pm Email decisions sent after 2pm for online applicants for online applicants
Offer Refusal Summer Term 2021
Further contact received directly from the school
concerning induction Parents may request to be placed on waiting lists and will be provided with information on the appeals process.
Summer Term 2021 Appeals held
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Admission policy for community and voluntary controlled primary schools in Dudley Principles: Entry in Academic Year 2021/2022 Dudley Council has an Inclusive Education Policy Children will not be discriminated against as laid which aims to maximise the opportunity to meet down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The parental preference. The Council does not Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the support the use of selective admissions policies Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The based on aptitude or academic achievement. Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination The admission arrangements set by the Council Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. ensure that the process is fair and equitable for all. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to Legal Context: allocate the available places at those • School Standards and Framework Act community and voluntary controlled primary 1998 as amended by the Education Act 2002 schools that are oversubscribed i.e. receive • The Education (Co-ordination of more applications than can be Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools) accommodated. (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 a) First priority for admission shall be given • The Education (Admission of Looked to relevant looked after children or children who After Children) (England) Regulations 2005 were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an • School Admissions Code 2014 adoption, child arrangement order, or special Desired Outcomes of Dudley Admission guardianship order. Policy & Scheme: b) Second priority for admission shall be • To maximise the opportunity for parents’ given to children with a “serious and ongoing preferences to be met and for Dudley children to medical condition” where the preferred be able to attend their preferred community or community or voluntary controlled school is the voluntary controlled primary school wherever most appropriate school to meet the condition. requested. c) Third priority for admission shall be given • To enable parents to make informed to children who have a brother/sister, half- preferences and to ensure that the Council brother/sister (where the children share one implements a fair and transparent admissions common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, policy across the Borough for the benefit of all living at the same address and who will still be parents who wish to express preferences for attending the preferred school in the academic Dudley primary schools. year 2021/22. • To keep to the minimum the number of d) Any places that remain available once the parents who are not allocated a place at any of above applicants have been admitted will be filled their preferred primary schools. according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a straight-line • To ensure that all parents receive only measurement in metres, from the home address one offer of a school place at the same time, to the main entrance of the preferred school. irrespective of the schools or Council for which they are applying, through coordination of the Notes process. • Relevant looked after children means Community and Voluntary Controlled Primary children who are looked after by a Council in School Admissions Policy for Normal Age of accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children
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Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Council, or friends or relatives (for reasons other than (b) being provided with accommodation by a guardianship), the friend’s or relative’s address Council in the exercise of their social services will not be considered for allocation purposes. functions. • Where parents have shared responsibility • An adoption order is an order under for a child, and the child lives with both parents Section 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act for part of the school week, then the home 2002. A Child Arrangement Order is an order address will be determined as the address where settling the arrangements to be made as to the the child lives for the majority of the school week. person with whom the child is to live under Parents will be required to provide documentary section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A evidence to support the address they wish to be of the Children Act 1989 defines a special considered for allocation purposes. At least one guardianship order as an order appointing one or item of proof must demonstrate where the child more individuals to be a child’s special guardian lives. It is expected that parents will agree on (or special guardians). school places before an application is made, and it may be necessary to request evidence from the • In accordance with legislation, a child with parents to confirm that this is the case. The a Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Council is not in a position to intervene in disputes offered a place at the school named in the EHCP between parents over school applications and will as the most appropriate to meet the child’s request that these are resolved privately. individual needs, this may reduce the number of places available for children who do not have an • Special conditions will apply in the event EHCP. that one child from a set of twins or triplets does not gain admission to the preferred school • If applying under the medical criterion, through the admissions criteria. The Council will parents must provide supportive information from exceed the admission number for the school their child’s Medical Consultant at the time of concerned to prevent separation of twins / application in order to be considered under this triplets. criteria. This supportive information should include information about the needs of the child • Random allocation will be used as a tie- and should detail the difficulties the child would break in category (d) to decide who has the experience if they attended another school. highest priority for admission if the distance Parents should also indicate why the preferred between two children’s homes and the school is school is the most appropriate to meet their the same. child’s medical condition rather than any other Deferred Entry to Reception Class school. The Council will not seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents. Parents have the right to retain a place offered and request that their child be admitted to • Any Dudley child not obtaining a school at Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 any of their preferred primary schools will be academic year or until the term after the child allocated a place at the next nearest school with reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. a place available and will be advised about the Parents can also request that their child takes up independent appeals process. the place part-time until the child reaches • Definition of brother or sister also relates compulsory school age. to adopted or fostered children living at the same home address. Application process • The home address is considered to be the For admissions at the normal point of entry, the LA will co-ordinate all applications for all schools child’s (along with their parents’) genuine in Dudley. For a copy of the co-ordinated principal place of residence at the time of the scheme, please contact the School Admissions allocation of places i.e. where they are normally Service. and regularly living. If a child is resident with
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The following pages detail the admissions policies for academy, foundation and voluntary aided primary schools.
Admissions Policies for foundation, voluntary aided and academy primary schools
c) Third priority shall be given to pupils who Alder Coppice Primary have a brother/sister, half-brother/half- School sister (where the children share one common parent) or step-brother/step sister The Published Admission Number for living at the same address and who will still 2021 will be 60. be attending Alder Coppice Primary School The School admits all children into Reception in 2021-22. during September and does not have a January d) Any remaining places will be filled intake. The Governors have adopted a policy of according to those pupils who live closest taking one intake into the School in September of to the School, determined by a straight-line each academic year for pupils whose fifth measurement in metres, from the home birthday falls in the academic year (1 September address to the main entrance of Alder – 31 August). Coppice Primary School. Where there are more applications than available Notes places the following criteria will be used to Relevant looked after children means children allocate the available places: who are looked after by a local authority in a) First priority for admission shall be given to accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children relevant looked after children or children Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local who were previously looked after but Authority, or (b) being provided with immediately after being looked after accommodation by a Local Authority in the became subject to an adoption, child exercise of their social services functions (see arrangement order or special guardianship definition in Section 22 (1) of the Children Act order. See notes below. 1989) at the time of making an application to a b) Second priority shall be given to pupils with school. This includes children who were adopted a ‘serious medical condition’ where Alder under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 Coppice Primary School is deemed by the adoption orders) and children who were adopted Governing Board to be the most under Adoption and Children Act 2002 (see appropriate school to meet the child’s section 46 adoption orders). serious medical condition. Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 of the (Parents must provide supportive Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the information from their child’s Hospital Children and Families Act 2014. Child Consultant at the time of application in arrangement orders replace residence orders order to be considered under this criterion. and any residence order in force prior to 22 April This supportive information should detail 2014 is deemed to be a child arrangement order. why Alder Coppice Primary School is the Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a most appropriate to meet the child’s special guardianship order as an order appointing medical condition rather than any other one or more individuals to be a child’s special school. The Governing Board will not seek guardian (or special guardians). to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.)
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In accordance with legislation, a child with an Applications for in-year admissions should be Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan will be made to the Local Authority who will consult with offered a place at the Alder Coppice Primary the governors of the School. School if the School is named in the EHC Plan. A separate application must be made for a Any child not obtaining a place at Alder Coppice nursery place and a school place since Primary School will be advised about the attendance at the Nursery does not guarantee a independent appeals process. place in school. Definition of brother or sister also relates to Application Forms are available from, and adopted or fostered children living at the same returnable to, the Local Authority or available home address. online at www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions. The Governing Board will usually admit in excess Late Applications of the PAN to prevent the separation of twins. Preferences that are received after the closing Parents have the right to retain a place offered date will only be considered after applications that and request that their child be admitted to were received within the deadline have been Reception later during the 2021 -2022 academic dealt with. year or until the Term in which the child reaches There will, however, be exceptional compulsory school age, if they so wish. Parents circumstances in which a late application will be can also request that their child takes up the considered alongside those applications that place part-time until their child reaches were made within the deadline. compulsory school age. In each exceptional circumstance supportive In the event that we are unable to distinguish documentary evidence must be provided by the between applicants for the final place, such as in parent/carer at the time of application. the case of children who live in the same block of flats, then the final place will be randomly Waiting Lists selected by drawing lots. If the school is oversubscribed and children have The home address is considered to be the child’s been refused admission because other children (along with their parents’) genuine principal place have a higher priority for admission under the of residence at the time of the allocation of places published admissions criteria, then those i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for they wish to be placed on a waiting list. reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or Children on the waiting list will be ranked in relatives’ address will not be considered for accordance with the school’s published allocation purposes. admissions criteria and the list will operate from Where parents have shared responsibility for a the point of allocation of places until 31 August child, and the child lives with both parents for part 2022. After 31 August 2022 the waiting list will no of the school week then the home address will be longer be in operation. determined as the address where the child lives Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean for the majority of the school week (i.e. 3 out of 5 that a place will eventually become available days available). Parents will be required to there. provide documentary evidence to support the address they wish to be considered for allocation A child’s position on the waiting list is not fixed purposes. and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. The Local Authority School Admissions Service will administer the Admissions Policy on behalf of Places that become available (below the the Governing Board as part of their co-ordinated published admissions number or any number that admissions scheme. the School agree they can admit) between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on
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this list, i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Beechwood Church of Admission of children outside of their normal England Primary School age group Parents may seek a place for their child outside The published admissions number for of their normal age group, for example, if the child year 2021/22 will be 30. is gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Parents should make Beechwood CE Primary School is part of the their application to the Governing Board setting group of schools within the drb ignite multi trust out the reasons why they believe their child primarily serves parents who wish their children should be taught outside of their chronological to receive an education provided by a church age group. school. In addition, the parents of summer born children The Trust have adopted a policy of taking one may choose not to send that child to school until intake into the school in September of each the September following their fifth birthday and academic year for pupils whose fifth birthday may request that they are admitted out of their falls in the academic year (1st September – normal age group – to Reception rather than Year 31st August). 1. Where the number of applicants exceeds the These parents will need to make an application admissions limit, places will be offered in the alongside children applying at the normal age following order: which should explain why it is in the child’s best 1. Relevant looked after children or children who interest to be admitted outside of their normal age were previously looked after but immediately which may include information such as after being looked after became subject to an professional evidence as to why this is the case adoption, child arrangement order or special and why an exception should be made in the case guardianship order. See notes below. of the child. A decision as to whether this is an appropriate course of action will be made by the 2. Children of The Church of England Faith (see Governing Board who will take into account the note 4 below) living in the parishes of St circumstances of the case. Parents do not have Edmund & St John who have a brother or the right to insist that their child is admitted to a sister (see Note 5 below) in the school at the particular year group. time of admission living inside the two parish areas of St Edmund & St John. Deferred Entry to Reception Class 3. Children of other Christian denominations, or Parents have the right to retain a place offered other faiths, who have a brother or sister (see and request that their child be admitted to note 6) in the school at the time of Admission. Reception Class later during the 2021 - 2022 academic year or until the Term in which the child 4. Children of the Church of England faith living in reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. the two parish areas of St Edmund & St John. Parents can also request that their child takes up 5. Children of the Church of England faith living the place part-time until the child reaches outside the two parish areas of St Edmund & compulsory school age. St John who have a brother or sister (see note Repeat Applications 5) in the school at the time of admission. It is not the Policy of the Governing Board to 6. Children of the Church of England faith living consider repeat applications in the same outside the two parish areas of St Edmunds academic year, unless there have been and St John. significant and material changes in the 7. Children of other Christian denominations, or circumstances of the applicant. other faiths, who have no brother or sister in the school at the time of Admission.
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8. All other children who are not included in the All siblings must be living at the same address. above criteria. Note 6: Over-Subscription The home address of a pupil is considered to be If there is over-subscription within a category, the the permanent residence of a child. The address Governors will give priority to children living must be the child’s only or main residence for the closest to the school determined by shortest majority of the school week. Where care is split straight-line distance measured form the main equally between mother and father, parents must entrance of the school to the home address (see name which address is to be used for the purpose note 6 below). of allocating a school place. If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for reasons other than Note 1: guardianship), the friend’s or relative’s address Relevant looked after children means children will not be considered for allocation purposes. who are looked after by a local authority in Where parents have shared responsibility for a accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children child, and the child lives with both parents for part Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local of the school week, then the home address will Authority, or (b) being provided with be determined as the address where the child accommodation by a Local Authority in the lives for the majority of the school week. Parents exercise of their social services functions. will be required to provide documentary evidence Note 2: to support the address they wish to be considered for allocation purposes. At least one item of proof An adoption order is an order under section 46 of must demonstrate where the child lives. It is the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. expected that parents will agree on school places A child arrangement order is an order settling the before an application is made, and it may be arrangements to be made as to the person with necessary to request evidence from you to whom the child is to live under section 8 of the confirm that this is the case. The School is not in Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the children a position to intervene in disputes between Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as parents over school applications and will request an order appointing one or more individuals to be that these are resolved privately. a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Note 7: Note 3 Special conditions will apply in the event that one Children with an Education Health Care Plan that child from a multiple birth does not gain names the school must be admitted. This will admission to the preferred school through the reduce the number of places available to admissions criteria. In the case of multiple births, applicants. the parents must select which child is to be offered the place. Note 4: Note 8: In the case of categories 2 – 8, the governors will require evidence in the form of a letter from the The Governors have agreed to follow the same Parish Priest or Faith Leader confirming process and time scale as adopted by Dudley LA attendance over a 12-month period of a least and the 2021/2022 Co-ordinated admission once a month in the year prior to admissions. arrangements across Dudley Borough schools. Note 5: Note 9: The definition of brother or sister is: In a very small number of cases, where the school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible • A brother or sister sharing the same parents. to decide between the applications of those pupils • Half-brother or half-sister, where two children who are the final qualifiers for a place when share one common parent. applying the published admission criteria. • Step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parent’s marriage. For example, this may occur when children in the • Adopted or fostered children. same year group live at the same address, or if 17 | P a g e
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the distance between the home and the school is Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If that a place will eventually become available there is no other way of separating the application there. according to the admissions criteria and to admit A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and both, or all, of the children would cause the is subject to change during the year i.e. they can Published Admission Number for the child’s year go up or down the list. group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on behalf of The Trust, will randomly select the child Places that become available between the point to be offered the final place. of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list Late Applications i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Applications received after the closing date will Deferred Entry to Reception Class only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with, Parents have the right to retain a place offered with the following exceptions: and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/22 a) Where a child moves into the Borough after the academic year or until the term in which the child closing date and therefore the parent/carer could reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. not apply within the deadline given. Parents can also request that their child takes up b) Where a child moves within the Borough and the place part-time until the child reaches as a result needs to make new preferences for compulsory school age. schools within the new area. Admission of children outside of their normal c) Where there were exceptional circumstances age group. that stopped a parent/carer returning the Parents may seek a place for their child outside application form within the deadline e.g. an of their normal age group, for example, if the child emergency admission to hospital. is gifted and talented or has experienced Appeals problems such as ill health. Parents should make their application to The Trust setting out the If you are not offered a place at the school, you reasons why they believe their child should be have the right to appeal to an independent panel. taught outside of their chronological age group. The Local Authority will administer this process on behalf of The Trust, the relevant form and In addition, the parents of summer born children guidance notes can be obtained from The School may choose not to send that child to school until the Admissions Service. September following their fifth birthday and may request that they are admitted out of their normal Waiting Lists age group – to reception rather than year 1. These If a school is oversubscribed and children have parents will need to make an application alongside been refused admission because other children children applying at the normal age which should have a higher priority for admission under the explain why it is in the child’s best interest to be published admissions criteria, then those admitted outside of their normal age which should applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if include information such as professional evidence they wish to be placed on a waiting list. as to why this is the case and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision Children on the waiting list will be ranked in as to whether this is an appropriate course of action accordance with the published admissions will be made by The Trust who will take into account criteria and the list will operate from the point of the circumstances of the case. Parents do not have allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this the right to insist that their child is admitted to a point the waiting list will no longer be in operation particular year group. and places that become available will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription criteria, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place. 18 | P a g e
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• Became subject to a child arrangements Blowers Green Primary order, or School • Became subject to a special guardianship order. Blowers Green Primary is a member of Dudley Academies Trust which operates a number of A child reaches compulsory school age on the academies in the West Midlands region. The prescribed day following his or her fifth birthday admissions policy aims to make clear the (or on his or her fifth birthday if it falls on a admissions process, maximise the opportunity to prescribed day). The prescribed days are 31 meet parental preferences and to meet the December, 31 March and 31 August. individual needs of Pupils wherever possible. How to Apply This policy aims to: All applications will be co-ordinated via the home • Explain how to apply for a place at the local authority of the applicant. Further details academy (school). and timescales are set out in the local authority’s • Set out the academy’s arrangements for co-ordinated scheme which is available from The allocating places to the Pupils who apply. School Admissions Service. You can use this • Explain how to appeal against a decision form to express your preference, in rank order. not to offer your child a place. There is no charge or cost related to the • Legislation and Statutory Requirements admission of a child to a school. Applications for This policy is based on the following advice from places will be made in accordance with Dudley the Department for Education (DfE) in the form of local authority’s co- the School Admissions Code and the School ordinated admission arrangements, and will be Admission Appeals Code made on the Common Application Form As an academy, we are required by our funding (CAF) provided and administered by the local agreement to comply with these codes, and with authority. The CAF can be found by visiting the law relating to admissions as set out in the https://www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions School Standards and Framework Act 1998. This Alternatively, parents/carers can contact the policy complies with our funding agreement and academy who will provide them with a copy of the articles of association. form. Definitions Requests for Admission Outside the Normal The normal admissions round is the period during Age Group which parents/carers can apply for state-funded Parents/carers are entitled to request a place for school places at the school’s normal point of their child outside of their normal age group, for entry, using the common application form example, if the child is gifted and talented or has provided by their home local authority. experienced problems such as ill health. Looked after children are children who, at the Decisions on requests for admission outside the time of making an application to a school, are: normal age group will be made on the basis of the • In the care of a local authority, or circumstances of each case and in the best • Being provided with accommodation by a interests of the child concerned. In accordance local authority in exercise of its social with the School Admissions Code, this will include services functions. taking account of: Previously looked after children are children who • Parents/carers views. were looked after, but ceased to be so because • Information about the child’s academic, they: social and emotional development. • Were adopted under the Adoption Act • Where relevant, their medical history and the 1976 or the Adoption and Children Act views of a medical professional. 2002, or • Whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group.
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• Whether they may naturally have fallen into against the following order of priority until all a lower age group if it were not for being born places are filled. prematurely. • Children who are currently Looked After or • The Head teacher’s views. children who were previously Looked After Wherever possible, requests for admission but immediately after being Looked After outside a child’s normal age group will be became subject to an adoption, child processed as part of the main admissions round. arrangement, or special guardianship order. They will be considered on the basis of the See notes below. admission arrangements laid out in this policy, • Children with a “serious and ongoing medical including the oversubscription criteria listed condition” where Blowers Green Primary is below. Applications will not be treated as a lower the most appropriate setting to meet the priority if parents/carers have made a request for condition. Parents must provide supportive a child to be admitted outside the normal age information from the child’s Hospital group. Consultant at the time of application. Applicants should also indicate why Blowers Parents/carers will always be informed of the Green Primary is the most appropriate reasons for any decision on the year group a child setting to meet their medical need. The should be admitted to. Parents/carers do not Academy will not seek to obtain medical have a right to appeal if they are offered a place evidence on behalf of parents. at the school but it is not in their preferred age group. • Children with a brother or sister, half- brother/sister (where the children share one Pupils with an Education Health and Care common parent), or step brother/step sister Plan living at the same home address and who will Pupils with an education, health and care (EHC) still be attending Blowers Green Primary in Plan are placed in schools through the September 2021. The definition of brother or arrangements set out in the SEND Code of sister also relates to adopted or fostered Practice and not through these admission criteria. children living at the same home address All admission authorities are required by Section • Proximity of the child's home to the 324 of the Education Act 1996 to admit to the Academy, with those living nearer being school a child with a an EHC Plan that names the accorded the higher priority. The distance school. Schools must admit such Pupils whether measured will be by straight line they have places or not. Any appeal concerning measurement in metres from the home the statement of the admission is to the address to the main entrance to the independent First-Tier Tribunal (Health, Academy. Education and Social Care Chamber). Late applications will not be considered until Parents/carers of Pupils with an EHC Plan should offers have been made to on time applicants and contact their child’s lead professional for any in accordance with the dates set out in the further information. Admission Scheme. Oversubscription Criteria There will, however, be exceptional All children whose education health and care circumstances in which a late application will be (EHC) plan names the school, will be admitted considered alongside those applications that before any other places are allocated. were made within the deadline. If the school is not oversubscribed, all applicants In each circumstance supportive documentary will be offered a place. evidence must be provided by the parent/carer at the time of application. In the event that the school receives more applications than the number of places it has In-Year Admissions available, places will be given to those children You can apply for a place for your child at any who meet any of the criteria set out below, time outside the normal admissions round. As is the case in the normal admissions round, all
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children whose EHC plan names the school, will during the year i.e. they can go up or down the be admitted. list. Likewise, if there are spaces available in the year Repeat Applications group you are applying for, your child will always It is not the Board of Trustee’s policy to consider be offered a place. repeat applications in the same academic year If there are no spaces available at the time of your unless there have been significant and material application, you can request that your child’s changes in the circumstances of the applicant. name be added to a waiting list for the relevant Appeals year group. When a space becomes available it will be filled by one of the Pupils on the waiting If your child’s application for a place at the list in accordance with the oversubscription academy is unsuccessful, you will be informed criteria listed above. Priority will not be given to why admission was refused and given children on the basis that they have been on the information about the process for hearing waiting list the longest. appeals. If you wish to appeal, you must set out the grounds for your appeal in writing and send it Applications for school places from to: Democratic Services, Council House, Priory parents/carers must be made on the in year Road, Dudley DY1 1HF application form available from Dudley Local Authority School Admissions Service 0300 555 The academy will establish an independent 2345. The school will consider each application. appeals panel to hear the appeal. The panel will If more than one application has been received decide whether to uphold or dismiss the appeal. and only one place is available, the criteria given Where a panel upholds the appeal the academy in this admissions policy will be used to make a is required to admit the child. decision. The arrangements for appeals will be in line with Parents/carers whose application is turned down the Code of Practice on School Admission are entitled to appeal. Appeals. Waiting List Parents/carers who want to appeal will normally have 20 school days, after receiving notification Where the school has been oversubscribed in the of a place not being offered, to lodge an appeal. normal admissions round and places have been refused to some applicants, unsuccessful Parents/carers wishing to appeal against an applicants will have the opportunity to ask for their admission decision should send a completed child’s name to be added to a waiting list which appeal form to the address detailed on the offer will be compiled in accordance with the over letter. Other documents may be submitted in subscription criteria. Any places which become support of an appeal and should be lodged no available will be filled from the waiting list. less than 5 school days before the appeal hearing. The waiting list will be prioritised according to the admission criteria and not by reference to the Parents/carers will be given at least 10 school date of joining the waiting list. It should be noted days’ notice of the appeal hearing, unless they that a child’s position on the list can move up or agree to a shorter period of notice. Appeals must down at any time, for example by Pupils moving be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for into the area who qualify for a higher criteria or by making an appeal. parents/carers deciding to remove their child’s The decision of the Appeal Panel will be name from the waiting list. communicated in writing as soon as possible after Any waiting list will be maintained for the the hearing has been concluded and within 5 academic year. Inclusion on a school’s waiting list school days. In the case of unsuccessful appeals, does not mean that a place will eventually the Appeal Panel will give the parents/carers their become available there. A child’s position on a reasons for not upholding the appeal. waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change
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• That the process is coordinated to such an Bramford Primary School extent that all parents receive only one offer of a school place at the same time, irrespective of the schools or LA for which they are Published Admission Number: 60 applying. Bramford Primary School has an Inclusive All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be Education Policy and the admissions policy aims assessed against the following criteria to allocate to maximise the opportunity to meet parental the available places where more applications are preference and to meet the individual needs of received than can be accommodated. children at their local school wherever possible. a) First priority for admission shall be given to The School does not use a selective admissions relevant looked after children or children who policy based on aptitude or academic were previously looked after but immediately achievement. after being looked after became subject to an The admission arrangements set by the adoption, child’s arrangement order, or special governing body ensures that the process is fair guardianship order. See notes below. and equitable for all. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to Children will not be discriminated against as laid children with a “serious and ongoing medical down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The condition” where Bramford is the most Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the appropriate school to meet the condition. Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The (Parents must provide supportive information Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination time of application in order to be considered Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. under this criteria. This supportive information Legal Context: should include information about the needs of the child and should detail the difficulties the • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as child would experience if they attended amended by the Education Act 2002 another school. Parents should also indicate • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission why the preferred school is the most Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) appropriate to meet their child’s medical (Amendment) Regulations 2012 condition rather than any other school. The School will not seek to obtain medical • The Education (Admission of Looked After evidence on behalf of parents.) Children) (England) Regulations 2005 c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • School Admissions Code 2014 children who have a brother/sister, half- Desired Outcomes of Bramford Admission brother/sister (where the children share one Policy & Scheme: common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, living at the same address and who will still be • To maximise the opportunity for parents’ attending Bramford in the academic year preferences to be met and for children to be 2021/22 able to attend their preferred school. d) Any places that remain available once the • To enable parents to make informed above applicants have been admitted, will be preferences and to ensure that the School filled according to those children who live implements a fair and transparent admissions closest to the school, determined by a straight- policy. line measurement in metres, from the home • That, working with the Local Authority, the address to the main entrance of the school. number of parents who are not allocated a
place at any of their preferred primary schools remains low. Notes
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• Relevant looked after children means children expected that parents will agree on school who are looked after by a local authority in places before an application is made, and it accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children may be necessary to request evidence from Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local you to confirm that this is the case. The School Authority, or (b) being provided with is not in a position to intervene in disputes accommodation by a Local Authority in the between parents over school applications and exercise of their social services functions. will request that these are resolved privately. • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 • Special conditions will apply in the event that of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002, or the one child from a set of twins or triplets does Adoption Act 1976. A Child Arrangement not gain admission to the preferred school Order is defined in section 8 of the Children through the admissions criteria. The Act 1989, amended by Section 12 of the Governing Body will exceed the admission Children and Families Act 2014. Section 14A number to prevent separation of twins / of the Children Act 1989 defines a special triplets. guardianship order as an order appointing one • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break or more individuals to be a child’s special in category d above to decide who has the guardian (or special guardians). highest priority for admission if the distance • In accordance with legislation, a child with a between two children’s homes and the school Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be is the same. offered a place if the school is named in the Deferred Entry to Reception Class EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the child’s individual needs, this may reduce the Parents have the right to retain a place offered amount of places available for children who do and request that their child be admitted to not have an EHCP. Reception Class later during the 2021/22 academic year or until the term in which the child • Any Dudley child not obtaining a place will be reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. advised about the independent appeals Parents can also request that their child takes up process. the place part-time until the child reaches • Definition of brother or sister also relates to compulsory school age. adopted or fostered children living at the same Admission of children outside of their normal home address. age group. • The home address is considered to be the Parents may seek a place for their child outside child’s (along with their parents’) genuine of their normal age group, for example, if the child principal place of residence at the time of the is gifted and talented or has experienced allocation of places i.e. where they are problems such as ill health. Parents should make normally and regularly living. If a child is their application to the school setting out the resident with friends or relatives (for reasons reasons why they believe their child should be other than guardianship), the friends or taught outside of their chronological age group. relatives address will not be considered for allocation purposes. In addition, the parents of summer born children may choose not to send that child to school until • Where parents have shared responsibility for the September following their fifth birthday and a child, and the child lives with both parents for may request that they are admitted out of their part of the school week, then the home normal age group – to reception rather than year address will be determined as the address 1. These parents will need to make an application where the child lives for the majority of the alongside children applying at the normal age school week. Parents will be required to which should explain why it is in the child’s best provide documentary evidence to support the interest to be admitted outside of their normal age address they wish to be considered for which should include information such as allocation purposes. At least one item of proof professional evidence as to why this is the case must demonstrate where the child lives. It is and why an exception should be made in the case
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of the child. A decision as to whether this is an including Bramford through our agreement with appropriate course of action will be made by The them. See the co-ordinated scheme for further School who will take into account the details. circumstances of the case. Parents do not have In year admission applications will be co- the right to insist that their child is admitted to a ordinated by the LA for Academies who have particular year group. indicated this in their admission arrangements. Late Applications Repeat Applications Preferences that are received after the closing It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat date for receipt of applications will only be applications in the same academic year unless considered after applications that were received there have been significant and material changes within the deadline have been dealt with. in the circumstances of the applicant. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this point the waiting list will no longer be in operation and places that become available will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed on above, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place. Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list.
Application process For admissions at the normal point of entry the LA will co-ordinate all applications for all schools,
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All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be Bromley-Pensnett Primary assessed against the following criteria to allocate School the available places if the school is oversubscribed i.e. receive more applications than can be accommodated. Bromley-Pensnett Primary School is part of drb a) First priority for admission shall be given to Multi Academy Trust. relevant looked after children or children Bromley-Pensnett Primary School follows Dudley who were previously looked after but Council’s Admission Policy and employs the immediately after being looked after council to oversee the running of the admissions became subject to an adoption, a child process, in line with its policy. arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below. Principles: b) Second priority for admission shall be given Bromley-Pensnett Primary School has an to children with a “serious and ongoing Inclusive Education Policy which aims to medical condition” where the preferred maximise the opportunity to meet parental community or voluntary controlled school is preference and to meet the individual needs of the most appropriate school to meet the children. condition. The School does not support the use of selective (Parents must provide supportive admissions policies based on aptitude or information from their child’s Hospital academic achievement. Consultant at the time of application in The admission arrangements set by The School order to be considered under this criteria. ensures that the process if fair and equitable for This supportive information should include all. information about the needs of the child and should detail the difficulties the child would Legal Context: experience if they attended another school. • The School Admissions (Admissions Parents should also indicate why the Arrangements and Co-Ordination of preferred school is the most appropriate to Admission Arrangements) (England) meet their child’s medical condition rather Regulations 2012 than any other school. The school will not seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf • The Education (Admission of Looked After of parents.) Children) (England)Regulations 2005 c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • The School Admissions (Infant Class children who have a brother/sister, half- Sizes) (England) Regulations 2012 brother/sister (where the children share one • School Admissions Code 2014 common parent), or step-brother/step- sister, living at the same address and who Bromley-Pensnett Primary School will still be attending the preferred school in Admissions Policy for Normal Age of Entry the academic year 2021/22. in Academic Year 2021/2022 d) Any places that remain available once the Published Admissions Number - 30 above applicants have been admitted, will Children will not be discriminated against as laid be filled according to those children who down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The live closest to the school, determined by a Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the straight-line measurement in metres, from Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The the home address to the main entrance of Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special the preferred school. Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination
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Notes • Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both • Relevant looked after children means parents for part of the school week, then children who are looked after by a local the home address will be determined as authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) the address where the child lives for the of the Children Act 1989 and who is (a) in majority of the school week. Parents will be care of a Local Authority, or (b) being required to provide documentary evidence provided with accommodation by a Local to support the address they wish to be Authority in the exercise of their social considered for allocation purposes. At services functions (see definition in Section least one item of proof must demonstrate 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time where the child lives. It is expected that of making an application to a school. This parents will agree on school places before includes children who were adopted under an application is made, and it may be the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 necessary to request evidence from you to adoption orders) and children who were confirm that this is the case. The school is adopted under Adoption and Children Act not in a position to intervene in disputes 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders). between parents over school applications • Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 and will request that these are resolved of the Children Act 1989, as amended by privately. s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. • Special conditions will apply in the event Child arrangement orders replace that one child from a set of twins or triplets residence orders and any residence order does not gain admission to the preferred in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to school through the admissions criteria. The be a child arrangement order. school will exceed the admission number • Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 for the school concerned to prevent defines a special guardianship order as an separation of twins / triplets. order appointing one or more individuals to • Random allocation will be used as a tie- be a child’s special guardian (or special break in category d above to decide who guardians). has the highest priority for admission if the • In accordance with legislation, a child with distance between two children’s homes and an Education, Health and Care Plan the school is the same. (EHCP), will be offered a place at the Deferred Entry to Reception Class school named in the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the child’s individual Parents have the right to retain a place offered needs, this may reduce the amount of and request that their child be admitted to places available for children who do not Reception Class later during the 2021/22 have an EHCP. academic year or until the term in which the child reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. • Definition of brother or sister also relates to Parents can also request that their child takes up adopted or fostered children living at the the place part-time until the child reaches same home address. compulsory school age. • The home address is considered to be the Admission of children outside of their normal age child’s (along with their parents’) genuine group. principal place of residence at the time of the allocation of places i.e. where they are Parents may seek a place for their child outside normally and regularly living. If a child is of their normal age group, for example, if the child resident with friends or relatives (for is gifted and talented or has experienced reasons other than guardianship), the problems such as ill health. Parents should make friend’s or relative’s address will not be their application to the school setting out the considered for allocation purposes. reasons why they believe their child should be taught outside of their chronological age group.
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In addition, the parents of summer born children Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a may choose not to send that child to school until place will eventually become available there. A the September following their fifth birthday and child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is may request that they are admitted out of their subject to change during the year i.e. they can go normal age group – to reception rather than year up or down the list. 1. Places that become available between the point These parents will need to make an application of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered alongside children applying at the normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should explain why it is in the child’s best i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. interest to be admitted outside of their normal age Application process which should include information such as professional evidence as to why this is the case For admissions at the normal point of entry The and why an exception should be made in the case Council will co-ordinate all applications for of the child. A decision as to whether this is an Bromley-Pensnett Primary School. See the co- appropriate course of action will be made by The ordinated scheme for further details. School who will take into account the In year admission applications will be co- circumstances of the case. Parents do not have ordinated by The Council for Bromley-Pensnett the right to insist that their child is admitted to a Primary School. particular year group. Repeat Applications Late Applications It is not Bromley-Pensnett’s Policy to consider Preferences that are received after the closing repeat applications in the same academic year date for receipt of applications will only be unless there have been significant and material considered after applications that were received changes in the circumstances of the applicant. within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation until the 31st August 2022. There will be a period of two weeks after the national offer date whereby places that have become available will not be reallocated. This will allow all applicants the same opportunity to join the waiting list.
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became subject to an adoption, child Colley Lane Primary arrangement order or special guardianship Academy order. See notes below. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children with a “serious and ongoing Our admission number for Reception is medical condition” where Colley Lane 90. Primary Academy is the most appropriate For admissions, Colley Lane Primary Academy school to meet the condition. will be part of the co-ordinated admission (Parents must provide supportive arrangements with Dudley MBC. Applications information from their child’s Hospital should be made online to Dudley MBC. Consultant at the time of application in Colley Lane Primary Academy has an Inclusive order to be considered under this criteria. Education Policy which aims to maximise the This supportive information should include opportunity to meet parental preference and to information about the needs of the child and meet the individual needs of children wherever should detail the difficulties the child would possible. experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate why Colley Colley Lane Primary Academy does not support Lane Primary Academy is the most the use of selective admissions policies based on appropriate to meet their child’s medical aptitude or academic achievement. condition rather than any other school. The The admission arrangements set by the Governing Body will not seek to obtain governing body ensures that the process if fair medical evidence on behalf of parents.) and equitable for all. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to Legal Context: children who have a brother/sister, half- brother/sister (where the children share one • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as common parent), or step-brother/step- amended by the Education Act 2002 sister, living at the same address and who • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission will still be attending Colley Lane Primary Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) Academy in the academic year 2021/22. (Amendment) Regulations 2012 d) Any places that remain available once the • The Education (Admission of Looked After above applicants have been admitted, will Children) (England)Regulations 2005 be filled according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a • School Admissions Code 2014 straight-line measurement in metres, from Children will not be discriminated against as laid the home address to the main entrance of down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The the school. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Notes Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special • Relevant looked after children means Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination children who are looked after by a local Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989 and who is (a) in All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be care of a Local Authority, or (b) being assessed against the following criteria to allocate provided with accommodation by a Local the available places where more applications are Authority in the exercise of their social received than can be accommodated. services functions. a) First priority for admission shall be given to • An adoption order is an order under Section relevant looked after children or children 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. who were previously looked after but A Child Arrangement Order settles the immediately after being looked after arrangements to be made as to the person
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with whom the child is to live under section does not gain admission to the preferred 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of school through the admissions criteria. The the Children Act 1989 defines a special Governing Body will exceed the admission guardianship order as an order appointing number prevent separation of twins / one or more individuals to be a child’s triplets. special guardian (or special guardians). • Random allocation will be used as a tie- • In accordance with legislation, a child with break in category d above to decide who an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will has the highest priority for admission if the be offered a place if the school is named in distance between two children’s homes and the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the school is the same. the child’s individual needs, this may Deferred Entry to Reception Class reduce the amount of places available for children who do not have an EHCP. Parents have the right to retain a place offered and request that their child be admitted to • Any Dudley child not obtaining a place will Reception Class later during the 2021/22 be advised about the independent appeals academic year or until the term in which the child process. reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. • Definition of brother or sister also relates to Parents can also request that their child takes up adopted or fostered children living at the the place part-time until the child reaches same home address. compulsory school age. • The home address is considered to be the Admission of children outside of their normal child’s (along with their parents’) genuine age group. principal place of residence at the time of Parents may seek a place for their child outside the allocation of places i.e. where they are of their normal age group, for example, if the child normally and regularly living. If a child is is gifted and talented or has experienced resident with friends or relatives (for problems such as ill health. Parents should make reasons other than guardianship), the their application to The Trust setting out the friend’s or relative’s address will not be reasons why they believe their child should be considered for allocation purposes. taught outside of their chronological age group. • Where parents have shared responsibility In addition, the parents of summer born children for a child, and the child lives with both may choose not to send that child to school until parents for part of the school week, then the the September following their fifth birthday and home address will be determined as the may request that they are admitted out of their address where the child lives for the normal age group – to reception rather than year majority of the school week. Parents will be 1. These parents will need to make an required to provide documentary evidence application alongside children applying at the to support the address they wish to be normal age which should explain why it is in the considered for allocation purposes. At least child’s best interest to be admitted outside of their one item of proof must demonstrate where normal age which should include information the child lives. It is expected that parents such as professional evidence as to why this is will agree on school places before an the case and why an exception should be made application is made, and it may be in the case of the child. A decision as to whether necessary to request evidence from you to this is an appropriate course of action will be confirm that this is the case. The School is made by The Trust who will take into account the not in a position to intervene in disputes circumstances of the case. between parents over school applications and will request that these are resolved Parents do not have the right to insist that their privately. child is admitted to a particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event Late Applications that one child from a set of twins or triplets
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Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be Cradley CE Primary School considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. Published Admission Number: 30 There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be The Governors of Cradley CE are especially considered alongside those applications that committed to serving the families within the were made within the deadline. District of Cradley as stated in the Trust Deed of 1855. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer "Cradley CE Primary is a school with a strong at the time of application. Christian ethos, open to all children, regardless of faith or background." Waiting Lists The Governors have adopted a policy of taking If the school is oversubscribed and children have one intake into the school in September of each been refused admission because other children academic year for pupils whose fifth birthday falls have a higher priority for admission under the in the academic year, (1st September – 31st published admissions criteria, then those August). applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Children on the waiting list will be ranked in Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the accordance with the published admissions Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The criteria and the list will operate from the point of Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination point the waiting list will no longer be in operation Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. and places that become available will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be more than one application is received at the same assessed against the following criteria to allocate time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed on the available places where more applications are above, will be used to determine which applicant received than can be accommodated will have the place. Where the number of applicants exceeds the Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a admissions limit of 30, places at the school will be place will eventually become available. allocated on the basis of the following criteria in order of priority. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can 1. Looked after children and all previously looked go up or down the list. after children. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after but ceased Places that become available between the point to be so because they were adopted (or of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered became subject to a child arrangement order to children according to their ranking on this list or special guardianship order). Further i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. references to previously looked after children Repeat Applications means such children who were adopted (or subject to child arrangement orders or special It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider guardianship orders) immediately following repeat applications in the same academic year having been looked after. (See notes) unless there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. 2. Children who have a brother/sister, half- brother/half-sister (where the children share one common parent), or step-brother/step sister, living at the same address and who will still be attending the preferred school in the academic year 2021-22.
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3. Any places that remain available once the c. Step-brother or step-sister, where two above applicants have been admitted will be children are related by a parent’s filled according to those children who live marriage; closest to the school, determined by a straight- v. The home address of a pupil is considered to line measurement in metres, from the home be the permanent residence of a child. The address to the main entrance of the preferred address must be the child’s only or main school. residence for the majority of the school week. Notes: Documentary evidence may be required. If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for i. A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is a) in the reasons other than guardianship), the care of a local authority, or b) being provided friend’s or relative’s address will not be with accommodation by a local authority in considered for allocation purposes. the exercise of their social services functions (see the definition in section 22 (1) of the vi. Where parents have shared responsibility for Children’s Act 1989) at the time of making an a child, and the child lives with both parents application to the school. This includes for part of the school week, then the home children who were adopted under the address will be determined as the address Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 adoption where the child lives for the majority of the orders) and children who were adopted school week. Parents will be required to under the Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 provide documentary evidence to support the address they wish to be considered for ii. Child arrangement orders are defined in allocation purposes. At least one item of section 8 of the Children Act1989, as proof must demonstrate where the child amended by section 12 of the Children and lives. Families Act 2014.Child arrangement orders replace residence orders and any residence vii. Special conditions will apply in the event that in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to one child from a set of twins or triplets does be a child arrangement order Section 14A of not gain admission to the preferred school the Children Act 1989 defines a ‘special through the admission criteria. The guardianship order’ as an order appointing Governing Body will exceed the admissions one or more individuals to be a child’s special number for the school to prevent separation guardian (or special guardians). of twins/triplets. iii. In accordance with legislation, a child with an viii. Random allocation will be used as a tie-break Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan will to decide who has the highest priority for be offered a place at the school named in the admission if the distance between two most appropriate to meet the child’s children’s homes and the school is the same. individual needs, this may reduce the amount Admission of children outside of their normal of places available for children who do not age group have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan. If parents wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age iv. Definition of brother or sister also relates to group, they should first make an application for adopted or fostered children living at the the normal age group. Parents should then same home address. The definition of a submit a formal written request to the Governing brother or sister is: Body, outlining the reasons why the child should a. A brother or sister sharing the same be considered for admittance into a class outside parents; of their normal age group and submitting any supporting documentation. The Governing Body b. Half-brother or half-sister, where two will consider the application and advise parents children have one common parent; the outcome of their application prior to the national offer day, having taken into account the information provided by the parents, the child’s
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best interests and the views of the Headteacher. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in If parents are considering this option, they should accordance with the published admissions read the DFE guidance which can be found at criteria and the list will more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription www.gov.uk/governement/publications/summer- criteria, as operate from the point of allocation born-children-schooladmission. until the 31st August 2022. After this point the Deferred Entry to Reception Class waiting list will no longer be in operation and Parents have the right to retain a place offered places that become available will be allocated on and request that their child be admitted to a first come first served basis. If detailed on Reception Class later during the 2021-2022 above, will be used to determine which applicant academic year or until the term in which the child will have the place. reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a Parents can also request that their child takes up place will eventually become available. the place part-time until the child reaches A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and compulsory school age. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can If an offer of a place cannot be made and parents go up or down the list. wish to appeal against the judgement, they will Places that become available between the point have the right of appeal to an Independent of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered Appeals Panel. to children according to their ranking on this list Any child not obtaining a place will be advised i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. about the independent appeals process Repeat Applications The governors have agreed to follow the same Unless there are significant and material changes process and time scale as adopted by Dudley in the circumstances of a parent’s application for MBC and the 2021-2022 Co-ordinated admission their child or the school, the governors will not arrangement across Dudley Borough Schools. consider a repeat application in the same Late Applications academic year Applications received after the closing date will In-Year Applications only be considered after applications that were For applications to move to Cradley CE within received within the deadline have been dealt with, the academic year, parents should contact the with the following exceptions: Local Authority who will co-ordinate this. • Where a child moves into the Borough after the closing date and therefore parent/carer could not apply within the deadline given. • Where a child moves within the Borough and as a result needs to make new preferences for schools within the new area. • Where there are exceptional circumstances that stopped a parent/carer returning the application form within the deadline. E.g. emergency admission to hospital. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list.
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b) Second priority for admission shall be given Dudley Wood Primary to children with a “serious and ongoing School medical condition” where Dudley Wood is the most appropriate school to meet the condition. Dudley Wood has an Inclusive Education Policy (Parents must provide supportive which aims to maximise the opportunity to meet information from their child’s Hospital parental preference and to meet the individual Consultant at the time of application in needs of children wherever possible. order to be considered under this criteria. Dudley Wood does not support the use of This supportive information should include selective admissions policies based on aptitude information about the needs of the child and or academic achievement. should detail the difficulties the child would experience if they attended another school. The admission arrangements set by the Trust Parents should also indicate why Dudley ensures that the process is fair and equitable for Wood is the most appropriate to meet their all. child’s medical condition rather than any Legal Context: other school. The Trust will not seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf of • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 parents). as amended by the Education Act 2002 c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission children who have a brother/sister, half- Arrangements) (Primary Schools) brother/sister (where the children share one (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 common parent), or step-brother/step- • The Education (Admission of Looked After sister, living at the same address and who Children) (England)Regulations 2005 will still be attending Dudley Wood in the academic year 2021/2022. • School Admissions Code 2014 d) Any places that remain available once the Admissions Policy for Normal Age of Entry in above applicants have been admitted, will Academic Year 2021/2022 be filled according to those children who Published Admission Number: 60 live closest to the school, determined by a straight-line measurement in metres, from Children will not be discriminated against as laid the home address to the main entrance of down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The the school. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Notes Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special • Relevant looked after children means Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination children who are looked after by a local Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be of the Children Act 1989 and who is(a) in assessed against the following criteria to allocate care of a Local Authority, or (b) being the available places where more applications are provided with accommodation by a Local received than can be accommodated. Authority in the exercise of their social services functions. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children • An adoption order is an order under Section who were previously looked after but 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. immediately after being looked after A child arrangement order is an order became subject to an adoption, child settling the arrangements to be made as to arrangement order or special guardianship the person with whom the child is to live order. See notes below. under section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989
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defines a special guardianship order as an Trust will exceed the admission number to order appointing one or more individuals to prevent the separation of twins / triplets. be a child’s special guardian (or special • Random allocation will be used as a tie- guardians). break in category d above to decide who • In accordance with legislation, a child with has the highest priority for admission if the an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will distance between two children’s homes and be offered a place if the school is named in the school is the same. the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet Deferred Entry to Reception Class the child’s individual needs, this may reduce the amount of places available for Parents have the right to retain a place offered children who do not have an EHCP. and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 • Any child not obtaining a place will be academic year or until the term in which the child advised about the independent appeals reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. process. Parents can also request that their child takes up • Definition of brother or sister also relates to the place part-time until the child reaches adopted or fostered children living at the compulsory school age. same home address. Admission of children outside of their normal • The home address is considered to be the age group. child’s (along with their parents’) genuine Parents may seek a place for their child outside principal place of residence at the time of of their normal age group, for example, if the child the allocation of places i.e. where they are is gifted and talented or has experienced normally and regularly living. If a child is problems such as ill health. Parents should make resident with friends or relatives (for their application to The Trust setting out the reasons other than guardianship), the reasons why they believe their child should be friend’s or relative’s address will not be taught outside of their chronological age group. considered for allocation purposes. In addition, the parents of summer born children • Where parents have shared responsibility may choose not to send that child to school until for a child, and the child lives with both the September following their fifth birthday and parents for part of the school week, then the may request that they are admitted out of their home address will be determined as the normal age group – to reception rather than year address where the child lives for the 1. majority of the school week. Parents will be required to provide documentary evidence These parents will need to make an application to support the address they wish to be alongside children applying at the normal age considered for allocation purposes. At least which should explain why it is in the child’s best one item of proof must demonstrate where interest to be admitted outside of their normal age the child lives. It is expected that parents which should include information such as will agree on school places before an professional evidence as to why this is the case application is made, and it may be and why an exception should be made in the case necessary to request evidence from you to of the child. A decision as to whether this is an confirm that this is the case. The School is appropriate course of action will be made by The not in a position to intervene in disputes Trust who will take into account the between parents over school applications circumstances of the case. and will request that these are resolved Parents do not have the right to insist that their privately. child is admitted to a particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event Late Applications that one child from a set of twins or triplets does not gain admission to the preferred Preferences that are received after the closing school through the admissions criteria. The date for receipt of applications will only be
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considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. Halesowen Church of There will, however, be exceptional England Primary School circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. The Published Admission will be 30 In each circumstance supportive documentary We care, we trust, we believe, we share, we enjoy evidence must be provided by the parent / carer we ACHIEVE! at the time of application. Whilst every effort will be made to meet parents’ Waiting Lists wishes as to a placement at this school for their child/children, registration does not automatically If the school is oversubscribed and children have guarantee a place. been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the It should also be noted that registration for a place published admissions criteria, then those at the school is a separate process from applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if registration for a Nursery place. Parents whose they wish to be placed on a waiting list. child attends the Nursery must, if they wish their child to continue on into the school, complete a Children on the waiting list will be ranked in separate application form. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Places at the school will be allocated on the basis allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of the following criteria: point the waiting list will no longer be in operation a) Looked after children and all previously and places that become available will be looked after children. Previously looked after allocated on a first come first served basis. If children are children who were looked after more than one application is received at the same but ceased to be so because they were time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed on adopted (or became subject to a child above, will be used to determine which applicant arrangement order or special guardianship will have the place. order). Further references to previously Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a looked after children means such children place will eventually become available. who were adopted (or subject to child arrangement orders or special guardianship A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and orders) immediately following having been is subject to change during the year i.e. they can looked after. (see notes) go up or down the list. b) Children who have a “serious and ongoing Places that become available between the point medical condition” where the preferred of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered school is the most appropriate school to meet to children according to their ranking on this list the condition. i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. (Parents must provide supportive information Repeat Applications from their child’s Hospital consultant at the It is not The Trust’s Policy to consider repeat time of application in order to be considered applications in the same academic year unless under this criteria. This supportive there have been significant and material changes information should include information about in the circumstances of the applicant. the needs of the child and should detail the difficulties the child would experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate why the preferred school is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical condition rather than any other school. The Governing Body will not seek to
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obtain medical evidence on behalf of • Any Dudley child not obtaining a place will be parents). advised about the independent appeals process. c) Children who have a brother/sister, half- brother/sister (where the children share one • Definition of brother or sister also relates to common parent), or step-brother/step-sister adopted or fostered children living at the same living at the same address and who will still home address. be attending the preferred school in the • The home address is considered to be the academic year 2021/2022. child’s (along with their parents’) genuine d) Any places that remain available once the principal place of residence at the time of the above applicants have been admitted, will be allocation of places i.e. where they are filled according to those children who live normally and regularly living. If a child is closest to the school, determined by a resident with friends or relatives (for reasons straight–line measurement in metres, from other than guardianship), the friends or the home address to the main entrance of the relatives address will not be considered for preferred school. allocation purposes. Notes • Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for • A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is a) in the part of the school week, then the home care of a local authority, or b) being provided address will be determined as the address with accommodation by a local authority in the where the child lives for the majority of the exercise of their social services functions (see school week. Parents will be required to the definition in Section 22 (1) of the Children’s provide documentary evidence to support the Act 1989) at the time of making an application address they wish to be considered for to the school. allocation purposes. At least one item of proof • This includes children who were adopted must demonstrate where the child lives. under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 • Special conditions will apply in the event that adoption orders) and children who were one child from a set of twins or triplets does adopted under the Adoption and Children’s not gain admission to the preferred school Act 2002 through the admissions criteria. The • Child arrangement orders are defined in Governing Body will exceed the admission Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as number for the school concerned to prevent amended by section 12 of the Children and separation of twins / triplets. Families Act 2014. Child arrangement orders • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break replace residence orders and any residence in to decide who has the highest priority for force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a admission if the distance between two child arrangement order children’s homes and the school is the same. • Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines Deferred Entry to Reception Class a ‘special guardianship order’ as an order appointing one or more individuals to be a Parents have the right to retain a place offered child’s special guardian (or special guardians). and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 • In accordance with legislation, a child with an academic year or until the term in which the child Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan will be reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. offered a place at the school named in the Parents can also request that their child takes up EHC Plan as the most appropriate to meet the the place part-time until the child reaches child’s individual needs, this may reduce the compulsory school age. amount of places available for children who do not have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan.
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Admission of children outside of their normal Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean age group that a place will eventually become available there. If parents wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal age A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and group, they should first make an application for is subject to change during the year i.e. they can the normal age group. Parents should then go up or down the list. submit a formal written request to the Governing Places that become available between the point Body, outlining the reasons why the child should of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered be considered for admittance into a class outside to children according to their ranking on this list of their normal age group and submitting any i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. supporting documentation. The Governing Body will consider the application and advise parents Application Process the outcome of their application prior to the For admissions at the normal point of entry the national offer day, having taken into account the Governors have agreed that the Local Authority information provided by the parents, the child’s will co-ordinate all applications for all schools in best interests and the views of the Headteacher. Dudley. See the co-ordinated scheme for further If parents are considering this option, they should details. read the DFE guidance which can be found at www.gov.uk/governement/publications/summer- The Governing Body have also agreed that in born-children-school-admission. year admission applications will be co-ordinated by the Local Authority. Late Applications Repeat Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be It is not the School’s Policy to consider repeat considered after applications that were received applications in the same academic year unless within the deadline have been dealt with. there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If a school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation until the 31st August 2021. If more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription criteria, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place.
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most appropriate school to meet the Ham Dingle Primary School condition. (Parents must provide supportive Ham Dingle has an Inclusive Education Policy information from their child’s Hospital which aims to maximise the opportunity to meet Consultant at the time of application in parental preference and to meet the individual order to be considered under this criteria. needs of children wherever possible. This supportive information should include information about the needs of the child and Ham Dingle does not support the use of selective should detail the difficulties the child would admissions policies based on aptitude or experience if they attended another school. academic achievement. Parents should also indicate why Ham The admission arrangements set by the Trust Dingle is the most appropriate to meet their ensures that the process is fair and equitable for child’s medical condition rather than any all. other school. The Trust will not seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf of Legal Context: parents). • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 c) Third priority for admission shall be given to as amended by the Education Act 2002 children who have a brother/sister, half- • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission brother/sister (where the children share one Arrangements) (Primary Schools) common parent), or step-brother/step- (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 sister, living at the same address and who will still be attending Ham Dingle in the • The Education (Admission of Looked After academic year 2021/2022. Children) (England)Regulations 2005 d) Any places that remain available once the • School Admissions Code 2014 above applicants have been admitted, will Admissions Policy for Normal Age of Entry in be filled according to those children who Academic Year 2021/2022 live closest to the school, determined by a Published Admission Number: 60 straight-line measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of Children will not be discriminated against as laid the school. down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Notes Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The • Relevant looked after children means Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special children who are looked after by a local Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. of the Children Act 1989 and who is(a) in All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be care of a Local Authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are Authority in the exercise of their social services functions. received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to • An adoption order is an order under Section relevant looked after children or children 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. A child arrangement order is an order who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after settling the arrangements to be made as to the person with whom the child is to live became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship under section 8 of the Children Act 1989. order. See notes below. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as an b) Second priority for admission shall be given order appointing one or more individuals to to children with a “serious and ongoing medical condition” where Ham Dingle is the 38 | P a g e
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be a child’s special guardian (or special • Random allocation will be used as a tie- guardians). break in category d above to decide who has the highest priority for admission if the • In accordance with legislation, a child with distance between two children’s homes and an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will the school is the same. be offered a place if the school is named in the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet Deferred Entry to Reception Class the child’s individual needs, this may Parents have the right to retain a place offered reduce the amount of places available for and request that their child be admitted to children who do not have an EHCP. Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 • Any child not obtaining a place will be academic year or until the term in which the child advised about the independent appeals reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. process. Parents can also request that their child takes up the place part-time until the child reaches • Definition of brother or sister also relates to compulsory school age. adopted or fostered children living at the same home address. Admission of children outside of their normal age group. • The home address is considered to be the child’s (along with their parents’) genuine Parents may seek a place for their child outside principal place of residence at the time of of their normal age group, for example, if the child the allocation of places i.e. where they are is gifted and talented or has experienced normally and regularly living. If a child is problems such as ill health. Parents should make resident with friends or relatives (for their application to The Trust setting out the reasons other than guardianship), the reasons why they believe their child should be friend’s or relative’s address will not be taught outside of their chronological age group. considered for allocation purposes. In addition, the parents of summer born children • Where parents have shared responsibility may choose not to send that child to school until for a child, and the child lives with both the September following their fifth birthday and parents for part of the school week, then the may request that they are admitted out of their home address will be determined as the normal age group – to reception rather than year address where the child lives for the 1. majority of the school week. Parents will be These parents will need to make an application required to provide documentary evidence alongside children applying at the normal age to support the address they wish to be which should explain why it is in the child’s best considered for allocation purposes. At least interest to be admitted outside of their normal age one item of proof must demonstrate where which should include information such as the child lives. It is expected that parents professional evidence as to why this is the case will agree on school places before an and why an exception should be made in the case application is made, and it may be of the child. A decision as to whether this is an necessary to request evidence from you to appropriate course of action will be made by The confirm that this is the case. The School is Trust who will take into account the not in a position to intervene in disputes circumstances of the case. between parents over school applications and will request that these are resolved Parents do not have the right to insist that their privately. child is admitted to a particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event Late Applications that one child from a set of twins or triplets Preferences that are received after the closing does not gain admission to the preferred date for receipt of applications will only be school through the admissions criteria. The considered after applications that were received Trust will exceed the admission number to within the deadline have been dealt with. prevent the separation of twins / triplets.
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There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be Hob Green Primary School considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. Hob Green Primary School is part of drb Multi In each circumstance supportive documentary Academy Trust. evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Hob Green Primary School follows Dudley Council’s Admission Policy and employs the Waiting Lists council to oversee the running of the admissions If the school is oversubscribed and children have process, in line with its policy. been refused admission because other children Principles: have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those Hob Green Primary School has an Inclusive applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if Education Policy which aims to maximise the they wish to be placed on a waiting list. opportunity to meet parental preference and to meet the individual needs of children. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions The School does not support the use of selective criteria and the list will operate from the point of admissions policies based on aptitude or allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this academic achievement. point the waiting list will no longer be in operation The admission arrangements set by The School and places that become available will be ensures that the process if fair and equitable for allocated on a first come first served basis. If all. more than one application is received at the same Legal Context: time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed on above, will be used to determine which applicant • The School Admissions (Admissions will have the place. Arrangements and Co-Ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a Regulations 2012 place will eventually become available. • The Education (Admission of Looked After A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and Children) (England)Regulations 2005 is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. • The School Admissions (Infant Class Sizes) (England) Regulations 2012 Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered • School Admissions Code 2014 to children according to their ranking on this list Hob Green Primary School Admissions Policy for i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Normal Age of Entry in Academic Year Repeat Applications 2020/2021 It is not The Trust’s Policy to consider repeat Published Admissions Number - 30 applications in the same academic year unless Children will not be discriminated against as laid there have been significant and material changes down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The in the circumstances of the applicant. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places if the school is
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oversubscribed i.e. receive more applications provided with accommodation by a Local than can be accommodated. Authority in the exercise of their social services functions (see definition in Section a) First priority for admission shall be given to 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989) at the time relevant looked after children or children of making an application to a school. This who were previously looked after but includes children who were adopted under immediately after being looked after the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 became subject to an adoption, a child adoption orders) and children who were arrangement order or special guardianship adopted under Adoption and Children Act order. See notes below. 2002 (see section 46 adoption orders). b) Second priority for admission shall be given • Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 to children with a “serious and ongoing of the Children Act 1989, as amended by medical condition” where the preferred s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. community or voluntary controlled school is Child arrangement orders replace the most appropriate school to meet the residence orders and any residence order condition. in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to (Parents must provide supportive be a child arrangement order. information from their child’s Hospital • Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 Consultant at the time of application in defines a special guardianship order as an order to be considered under this criteria. order appointing one or more individuals to This supportive information should include be a child’s special guardian (or special information about the needs of the child and guardians). should detail the difficulties the child would experience if they attended another school. • In accordance with legislation, a child with Parents should also indicate why the an Education, Health and Care Plan preferred school is the most appropriate to (EHCP), will be offered a place at the meet their child’s medical condition rather school named in the EHCP as the most than any other school. The school will not appropriate to meet the child’s individual seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf needs, this may reduce the amount of of parents.) places available for children who do not have an EHCP. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to children who have a brother/sister, half- • Definition of brother or sister also relates to brother/sister (where the children share one adopted or fostered children living at the common parent), or step-brother/step- same home address. sister, living at the same address and who • The home address is considered to be the will still be attending the preferred school in child’s (along with their parents’) genuine the academic year 2020/21. principal place of residence at the time of d) Any places that remain available once the the allocation of places i.e. where they are above applicants have been admitted, will normally and regularly living. If a child is be filled according to those children who resident with friends or relatives (for live closest to the school, determined by a reasons other than guardianship), the straight-line measurement in metres, from friend’s or relative’s address will not be the home address to the main entrance of considered for allocation purposes. the preferred school. • Where parents have shared responsibility Notes for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the school week, then the • Relevant looked after children means home address will be determined as the children who are looked after by a local address where the child lives for the authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) majority of the school week. Parents will be of the Children Act 1989 and who is (a) in required to provide documentary evidence care of a Local Authority, or (b) being
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to support the address they wish to be These parents will need to make an application considered for allocation purposes. At least alongside children applying at the normal age one item of proof must demonstrate where which should explain why it is in the child’s best the child lives. It is expected that parents interest to be admitted outside of their normal age will agree on school places before an which should include information such as application is made, and it may be professional evidence as to why this is the case necessary to request evidence from you to and why an exception should be made in the case confirm that this is the case. The school is of the child. A decision as to whether this is an not in a position to intervene in disputes appropriate course of action will be made by The between parents over school applications School who will take into account the and will request that these are resolved circumstances of the case. Parents do not have privately. the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event that one child from a set of twins or triplets Late Applications does not gain admission to the preferred Preferences that are received after the closing school through the admissions criteria. The date for receipt of applications will only be school will exceed the admission number considered after applications that were received for the school concerned to prevent within the deadline have been dealt with. separation of twins / triplets. There will, however, be exceptional • Random allocation will be used as a tie- circumstances in which a late application will be break in category d above to decide who considered alongside those applications that has the highest priority for admission if the were made within the deadline. distance between two children’s homes and the school is the same. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Deferred Entry to Reception Class at the time of application. Parents have the right to retain a place offered Waiting Lists and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 If the school is oversubscribed and children have academic year or until the term in which the child been refused admission because other children reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. have a higher priority for admission under the Parents can also request that their child takes up published admissions criteria, then those the place part-time until the child reaches applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if compulsory school age. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. There will of their normal age group, for example, if the child be a period of two weeks after the national offer is gifted and talented or has experienced date whereby places that have become available problems such as ill health. Parents should make will not be reallocated. This will allow all their application to the school setting out the applicants the same opportunity to join the reasons why they believe their child should be waiting list. taught outside of their chronological age group. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a In addition, the parents of summer born children place will eventually become available there. A may choose not to send that child to school until child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is the September following their fifth birthday and subject to change during the year i.e. they can go may request that they are admitted out of their up or down the list. normal age group – to reception rather than year 1. Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered
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to children according to their ranking on this list i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Hurst Hill Primary School Application Process For admissions at the normal point of entry The Published Admission Number: 45 Council will co-ordinate all applications for Hob Principles: Green Primary School. See the co-ordinated scheme for further details. Hurst Hill Primary School has an Inclusive Education Policy which aims to maximise the In year admission applications will be co- opportunity to meet parental preference and to ordinated by The Council for Hob Green Primary meet the individual needs of children wherever School. possible. Repeat Applications Hurst Hill Primary School does not support the It is not Hob Green’s Policy to consider repeat use of selective admissions policies based on applications in the same academic year unless aptitude or academic achievement. there have been significant and material changes The admission arrangements set by the Trust in the circumstances of the applicant. ensures that the process if fair and equitable for all. Legal Context: • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as amended by the Education Act 2002 • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 • The Education (Admission of Looked After Children) (England)Regulations 2005 • School Admissions Code 2014 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances:
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1. Where the member of staff has been • In accordance with legislation, a child with an employed at the school for two or more Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be years at the time at which the application offered a place if the school is named in the for admission to the school is made, EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the and/or child’s individual needs, this may reduce the amount of places available for children who do 2. The member of staff is recruited to fill a not have an EHCP. vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage • Any child not obtaining a place will be advised about the independent appeals process. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to children who have a brother/sister, half- • Definition of brother or sister also relates to brother/sister (where the children share one adopted or fostered children living at the same common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, home address. living at the same address and who will still • The home address is considered to be the be attending Hurst Hill Primary School in the child’s (along with their parents’) genuine academic year 2021/2022. principal place of residence at the time of the d) Any places that remain available once the allocation of places i.e. where they are above applicants have been admitted, will be normally and regularly living. If a child is filled according to those children who live resident with friends or relatives (for reasons closest to the school, determined by a other than guardianship), the friends or straight-line measurement in metres, from relatives address will not be considered for the home address to the main entrance of the allocation purposes. school. • Where parents have shared responsibility for Notes a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the school week, then the home • Relevant looked after children means children address will be determined as the address who are looked after by a local authority in where the child lives for the majority of the accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children school week. Parents will be required to Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local provide documentary evidence to support the Authority, or (b) being provided with address they wish to be considered for accommodation by a Local Authority in the allocation purposes. At least one item of proof exercise of their social services functions. must demonstrate where the child lives. It is • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 expected that parents will agree on school of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. A places before an application is made, and it residence order is an order settling the may be necessary to request evidence from arrangements to be made as to the person you to confirm that this is the case. The School with whom the child is to live under section 8 is not in a position to intervene in disputes of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the between parents over school applications and Children Act 1989 defines a special will request that these are resolved privately. guardianship order as an order appointing one • Special conditions will apply in the event that or more individuals to be a child’s special one child from a set of twins or triplets does guardian (or special guardians). not gain admission to the preferred school • Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 of through the admissions criteria. The the Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of Governing Body will exceed the admission the Children and Families Act 2014. Child number prevent separation of twins / triplets. arrangement orders replace residence orders • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break and any residence order in force prior to 22 in category d above to decide who has the April 2014 is deemed to be a child highest priority for admission if the distance arrangement order. between two children’s homes and the school is the same.
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Deferred Entry to Reception Class In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Parents have the right to retain a place offered at the time of application. and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 Waiting Lists academic year or until the term in which the child If the school is oversubscribed and children have reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. been refused admission because other children Parents can also request that their child takes up have a higher priority for admission under the the place part-time until the child reaches published admissions criteria, then those compulsory school age. applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if Admission of children outside of their normal they wish to be placed on a waiting list. age group. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in Parents may seek a place for their child outside accordance with the published admissions of their normal age group, for example, if the child criteria and the list will operate from the point of is gifted and talented or has experienced allocation until the 31st August 2021. After this problems such as ill health. Parents should make point the waiting list will no longer be in operation their application to The Trust setting out the and places that become available will be reasons why they believe their child should be allocated on a first come first served basis. If taught outside of their chronological age group. more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed on In addition, the parents of summer born children above, will be used to determine which applicant may choose not to send that child to school until will have the place. the September following their fifth birthday and may request that they are admitted out of their Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a normal age group – to reception rather than year place will eventually become available. 1. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and These parents will need to make an application is subject to change during the year i.e. they can alongside children applying at the normal age go up or down the list. which should explain why it is in the child’s best Places that become available between the point interest to be admitted outside of their normal age of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered which should include information such as to children according to their ranking on this list, professional evidence as to why this is the case i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an Repeat Applications appropriate course of action will be made by The It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat Trust who will take into account the applications in the same academic year unless circumstances of the case. Parents do not have there have been significant and material changes the right to insist that their child is admitted to a in the circumstances of the applicant. particular year group.
Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline.
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c) Children of families who are active members Jesson’s Church of of the Church of England (see note 2 below). England Primary School d) Children of families committed to the practice of the Christian Religion. (See note 2 below). Jesson’s CE Primary School has an Inclusive Education Policy and the admissions policy aims e) Children of families committed to the to maximise the opportunity to meet parental practice of other religions who would like preferences and to meet the individual needs of their children educated at a Church of children wherever possible. The School does not England School. (See note 3 below). use a selective policy based on aptitude or f) Proximity of the child’s home to the school, academic achievement. with those living nearer being accorded the Children will not be discriminated against as laid higher priority. The distance will be down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The measured in a straight line from the front Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the door of the dwelling to the doors of the main Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The entrance to the school in School Street. Human Rights Act 1998, The Special Educational In accordance with legislation a child with an Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan will be The Equality Act 2010. offered a place at the school named in the The published admissions number for year statement or EHCP as the most appropriate to 2021/22 will be 90. meet the child’s individual needs. This may reduce the amount of places available for children Jesson’s Church of England Primary School who do not have an ECHP. primarily serves parents who wish their children to receive an education provided by a church Note 1: school. There will be no charge relating to the Relevant looked after children means children admission of pupils. who are looked after by a local authority in The governors have adopted a policy of taking accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Act one intake into the school in September of each 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local Authority, academic year for pupils whose fifth birthday falls or (b) being provided with accommodation by a in the academic year, (1st September – 31st Local Authority in the exercise of their social August). services functions (see definition in Section 22 (1) of the Children act 1989) at the time of making an Where the number of applicants exceeds the application to a school. This includes children who admissions limit, places will be offered as follows: were adopted under the Adoption Act 1976 (see a) First priority for admission shall be given to section 12 adoption orders) and children who were relevant looked after children or children adopted under Adoption and Children Act 2002 who were previously looked after but (see section 46 adoption orders). immediately after being looked after Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 of the became subject to an adoption, a child Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the arrangement order or special guardianship Children and Families Act 2014. Child order. See notes below. arrangement orders replace residence orders and b) Children who have a child living at the same any residence order in force prior to 22 April 2014 address who is their brother/sister, half- is deemed to be a child arrangement order. brother/sister or stepbrother/sister and who Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a are attending this school at the special guardianship order as an order appointing requested time of entry. The definition of one or more individuals to be a child’s special brother or sister also relates to adopted or guardian (or special guardians). fostered children living at the same home address. Note 2: 46 | P a g e
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In assessing eligibility under priorities (c) and (d), There will, however, be exceptional a letter to accompany the supplementary form circumstances in which a late application will be from the parish priest or minister is required. This considered alongside those applications that were must provide evidence of attendance of at least made within the deadline. once a month in the 12 months prior to application. In each circumstance supportive documentary Note 3: evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. In assessing eligibility under priority (e) a letter to accompany the supplementary form from a faith Waiting Lists leader to confirm that they are members of the If the school is oversubscribed and children have faith community. been refused admission because other children Note 4: have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those In the event that we are unable to distinguish applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if between applicants for the final available place, they wish to be placed on a waiting list. such as in the case of children who live in the same block of flats or children from multiple births Children on the waiting list will be ranked in where infant class size legislation would be accordance with the published admissions criteria breached, then the final place will be randomly and the list will operate from the point of allocation selected by drawing lots. until the 31st August 2022. After this point the waiting list will no longer be in operation and Note 5: places that become available will be allocated on Where parents have shared responsibility for a a first come first served basis. If more than one child and the child lives with both parents for part application is received at the same time, the of the school week then the home address will be oversubscription criteria, as detailed above, will be determined as the address where the child lives used to determine which applicant will have the for the majority of the school week, (i.e. 3 out of 5 place. days available). Parents will be required to Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a provide documentary evidence to support the place will eventually become available. address they wish to be considered for allocation purposes. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can Note 6: go up or down the list. Where parents apply for a place outside the Places that become available between the point of normal round of admissions i.e. during the school allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to year, they will be referred to the Local Authority children according to their ranking on this list i.e. School Admissions Department in the first those ranked highest will be offered first. instance. Deferred Entry to Reception Class Parents of pupils not offered a place will be advised of their right to appeal to an independent Parents have the right to retain a place offered and appeals panel. request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/22 academic year or The governors have agreed to follow the same until the term in which the child reaches compulsory process and time scale as adopted by Dudley school age, if they so wish. Parents can also MBC and the 2020/21 Co-ordinated admission request that their child takes up the place part-time arrangements across Dudley Borough Schools. until the child reaches compulsory school age. Late Applications
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gifted and talented or has experienced problems such as ill health. Parents should make their Kates Hill Primary School application to the Local Authority setting out the reasons why they believe their child should be taught outside of their chronological age group. Principles: In addition, the parents of summer born children Kates Hill Primary School has an Inclusive may choose not to send that child to school until the Education Policy which aims to maximise the September following their fifth birthday and may opportunity to meet parental preference and to request that they are admitted out of their normal meet the individual needs of children wherever age group – to reception rather than year 1. possible. These parents will need to make an application Kates Hill Primary School does not support the alongside children applying at the normal age which use of selective admissions policies based on should explain why it is in the child’s best interest to aptitude or academic achievement. be admitted outside of their normal age which may The admission arrangements set by the Learning include information such as professional evidence Link Multi Academy Trust (‘The Trust’) ensures as to why this is the case and why an exception that the process is fair and equitable for all. should be made in the case of the child. A decision Legal Context: as to whether this is an appropriate course of action will be made by the Governing Body of Jesson’s CE • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 Primary School who will take into account the as amended by the Education Act 2002 circumstances of the case. Parents do not have the • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission right to insist that their child is admitted to a Arrangements) (Primary Schools) particular year group. (England)(Amendment) Regulations 2012 Repeat Applications • The Education (Admission of Looked After Unless there are significant and material changes Children) (England)Regulations 2005 in the circumstances of a parent’s application for • School Admissions Code 2014 their child or the school, the governors will not consider a repeat application in the same academic Admissions Policy for Normal Age of Entry in year. Academic Year 2021/2022 Published Admission Number: 60 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below.
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b) Second priority for admission shall be given in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to to children with a “serious and ongoing be a child arrangement order. medical condition” where Kates Hill is the • Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 most appropriate school to meet the defines a special guardianship order as an condition. order appointing one or more individuals to (Parents must provide supportive be a child’s special guardian (or special information from their child’s Hospital guardians). Consultant at the time of application in • In accordance with legislation, a child with order to be considered under this criteria. an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will This supportive information should include be offered a place if the school is named in information about the needs of the child and the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet should detail the difficulties the child would the child’s individual needs, this may experience if they attended another school. reduce the amount of places available for Parents should also indicate why Kates Hill children who do not have an EHCP. is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical condition rather than any other • Any child not obtaining a place will be school. The Trust will not seek to obtain advised about the independent appeals medical evidence on behalf of parents). process. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • Definition of brother or sister also relates to children who have a brother/sister, half- adopted or fostered children living at the brother/sister (where the children share one same home address. common parent), or step-brother/step- • The home address is considered to be the sister, living at the same address and who child’s (along with their parents’) genuine will still be attending Kates Hill in the principal place of residence at the time of academic year 2021/2022. the allocation of places i.e. where they are d) Any places that remain available once the normally and regularly living. If a child is above applicants have been admitted, will resident with friends or relatives (for be filled according to those children who reasons other than guardianship), the live closest to the school, determined by a friends or relatives address will not be straight-line measurement in metres, from considered for allocation purposes. the home address to the main entrance of • Where parents have shared responsibility the school. for a child, and the child lives with both Notes parents for part of the school week, then the home address will be determined as the • Relevant looked after children means address where the child lives for the children who are looked after by a local majority of the school week. Parents will be authority in accordance with Section 22 (1) required to provide documentary evidence of the Children Act 1989 and who is (a) in to support the address they wish to be care of a Local Authority, or (b) being considered for allocation purposes. At least provided with accommodation by a Local one item of proof must demonstrate where Authority in the exercise of their social the child lives. It is expected that parents services functions. will agree on school places before an • An adoption order is an order under Section application is made, and it may be 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. necessary to request evidence from you to Child arrangement orders are defined in s.8 confirm that this is the case. The School is of the Children Act 1989, as amended by not in a position to intervene in disputes s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. between parents over school applications Child arrangement orders replace and will request that these are resolved residence orders and any residence order privately.
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• Special conditions will apply in the event Late Applications that one child from a set of twins or triplets Preferences that are received after the closing does not gain admission to the preferred date for receipt of applications will only be school through the admissions criteria. The considered after applications that were received Trust will exceed the admission number to within the deadline have been dealt with. prevent the separation of twins / triplets. There will, however, be exceptional • Random allocation will be used as a tie- circumstances in which a late application will be break in category d above to decide who considered alongside those applications that has the highest priority for admission if the were made within the deadline. distance between two children’s homes and the school is the same. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Deferred Entry to Reception Class at the time of application. Parents have the right to retain a place offered Waiting Lists and request that their child be admitted to Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 If the school is oversubscribed and children have academic year or until the term in which the child been refused admission because other children reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. have a higher priority for admission under the Parents can also request that their child takes up published admissions criteria, then those the place part-time until the child reaches applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if compulsory school age. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to The Trust setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant In addition, the parents of summer born children will have the place. may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and 1. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age Places that become available between the point which should explain why it is in the child’s best of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered interest to be admitted outside of their normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should include information such as i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. professional evidence as to why this is the case Repeat Applications and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an It is not The Trust’s Policy to consider repeat appropriate course of action will be made by The applications in the same academic year unless Trust who will take into account the there have been significant and material changes circumstances of the case. Parents do not have in the circumstances of the applicant. the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group.
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years at the time at which the application
Lapal Primary School for admission to the school is made, and/or Published Admission Number: 45 2. The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a Lapal Primary School has an Inclusive Education demonstrable skills shortage Policy which aims to maximise the opportunity to meet parental preference and to meet the c) Third priority for admission shall be given to individual needs of children wherever possible. children who have a brother/sister, half- brother/sister (where the children share one Lapal Primary School does not support the use of common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, selective admissions policies based on aptitude living at the same address and who will still or academic achievement. be attending Lapal Primary School in the The admission arrangements set by the Trust academic year 2021/2022. ensures that the process if fair and equitable for d) Any places that remain available once the all. above applicants have been admitted, will be Legal Context: filled according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as straight-line measurement in metres, from amended by the Education Act 2002 the home address to the main entrance of the • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission school. Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) Notes (Amendment) Regulations 2012 • Relevant looked after children means children • The Education (Admission of Looked After who are looked after by a local authority in Children) (England) Regulations 2005 accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children • School Admissions Code 2014 Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local Authority, or (b) being provided with Children will not be discriminated against as laid accommodation by a Local Authority in the down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The exercise of their social services functions. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. Child Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination arrangement orders are defined in s.8 of the Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Child All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be arrangement orders replace residence orders assessed against the following criteria to allocate and any residence order in force prior to 22 the available places where more applications are April 2014 is deemed to be a child arrangement received than can be accommodated. order. Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 a) First priority for admission shall be given to defines a special guardianship order as an relevant looked after children or children who order appointing one or more individuals to be were previously looked after but immediately a child’s special guardian (or special after being looked after became subject to an guardians). adoption, child arrangement order or special • In accordance with legislation, a child with an guardianship order. See notes below. Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be b) Second priority for admission shall be given offered a place if the school is named in the to children of staff in either or both of the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the following circumstances: child’s individual needs, this may reduce the amount of places available for children who do 1. Where the member of staff has been not have an EHCP. employed at the school for two or more
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• Any child not obtaining a place will be advised the place part-time until the child reaches about the independent appeals process. compulsory school age. • Definition of brother or sister also relates to Admission of children outside of their normal adopted or fostered children living at the same age group. home address. Parents may seek a place for their child outside • The home address is considered to be the of their normal age group, for example, if the child child’s (along with their parents’) genuine is gifted and talented or has experienced principal place of residence at the time of the problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocation of places i.e. where they are normally their application to The Trust setting out the and regularly living. If a child is resident with reasons why they believe their child should be friends or relatives (for reasons other than taught outside of their chronological age group. guardianship), the friends or relatives address In addition, the parents of summer born children will not be considered for allocation purposes. may choose not to send that child to school until • Where parents have shared responsibility for a the September following their fifth birthday and child, and the child lives with both parents for may request that they are admitted out of their part of the school week, then the home address normal age group – to reception rather than year will be determined as the address where the 1. child lives for the majority of the school week. These parents will need to make an application Parents will be required to provide alongside children applying at the normal age documentary evidence to support the address which should explain why it is in the child’s best they wish to be considered for allocation interest to be admitted outside of their normal age purposes. At least one item of proof must which should include information such as demonstrate where the child lives. It is professional evidence as to why this is the case expected that parents will agree on school and why an exception should be made in the case places before an application is made, and it of the child. A decision as to whether this is an may be necessary to request evidence from appropriate course of action will be made by The you to confirm that this is the case. The School Trust who will take into account the is not in a position to intervene in disputes circumstances of the case. Parents do not have between parents over school applications and the right to insist that their child is admitted to a will request that these are resolved privately. particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event that Late Applications one child from a set of twins or triplets does not gain admission to the preferred school through Preferences that are received after the closing the admissions criteria. The Trust will exceed date for receipt of applications will only be the admission number prevent separation of considered after applications that were received twins / triplets. within the deadline have been dealt with. • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break There will, however, be exceptional in category d above to decide who has the circumstances in which a late application will be highest priority for admission if the distance considered alongside those applications that between two children’s homes and the school were made within the deadline. is the same. In each circumstance supportive documentary Deferred Entry to Reception Class evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Parents have the right to retain a place offered and request that their child be admitted to Waiting Lists Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 If the school is oversubscribed and children have academic year or until the term in which the child been refused admission because other children reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. have a higher priority for admission under the Parents can also request that their child takes up published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if 52 | P a g e
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they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance Lutley Primary School with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this point the waiting list Published Admission Number: 90 will no longer be in operation and places that Lutley Primary School has an Inclusive Education become available will be allocated on a first come Policy which aims to maximise the opportunity to first served basis. If more than one application is meet parental preference and to meet the received at the same time, the oversubscription individual needs of children wherever possible. criteria, as detailed above, will be used to Lutley Primary School does not support the use determine which applicant will have the place. of selective admissions policies based on Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a aptitude or academic achievement. place will eventually become available. The admission arrangements set by the Trust A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and ensures that the process if fair and equitable for is subject to change during the year i.e. they can all. go up or down the list. Legal Context: Places that become available between the point • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered amended by the Education Act 2002 to children according to their ranking on this list i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) Repeat Applications (Amendment) Regulations 2012 It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat • The Education (Admission of Looked After applications in the same academic year unless Children) (England)Regulations 2005 there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. • School Admissions Code 2014 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances: 1. Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application 53 | P a g e
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for admission to the school is made, • Any child not obtaining a place will be advised and/or about the independent appeals process. 2. The member of staff is recruited to fill a • Definition of brother or sister also relates to vacant post for which there is a adopted or fostered children living at the same demonstrable skills shortage home address. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • The home address is considered to be the children who have a brother/sister, half- child’s (along with their parents’) genuine brother/sister (where the children share one principal place of residence at the time of the common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, allocation of places i.e. where they are living at the same address and who will still normally and regularly living. If a child is be attending Lutley Primary School in the resident with friends or relatives (for reasons academic year 2021/2022. other than guardianship), the friends or relatives address will not be considered for d) Any places that remain available once the allocation purposes. above applicants have been admitted, will be filled according to those children who live • Where parents have shared responsibility for closest to the school, determined by a a child, and the child lives with both parents for straight-line measurement in metres, from part of the school week, then the home the home address to the main entrance of the address will be determined as the address school. where the child lives for the majority of the school week. Parents will be required to Notes provide documentary evidence to support the • Relevant looked after children means children address they wish to be considered for who are looked after by a local authority in allocation purposes. At least one item of proof accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children must demonstrate where the child lives. It is Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local expected that parents will agree on school Authority, or (b) being provided with places before an application is made, and it accommodation by a Local Authority in the may be necessary to request evidence from exercise of their social services functions. you to confirm that this is the case. The School • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 is not in a position to intervene in disputes of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. Child between parents over school applications and arrangement orders are defined in s.8 of the will request that these are resolved privately. Children Act 1989, as amended by s.12 of the • Special conditions will apply in the event that Children and Families Act 2014. Child one child from a set of twins or triplets does arrangement orders replace residence orders not gain admission to the preferred school and any residence order in force prior to 22 through the admissions criteria. The Trust will April 2014 is deemed to be a child exceed the admission number prevent arrangement order. Section 14A of the separation of twins / triplets. Children Act 1989 defines a special • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break guardianship order as an order appointing one in category d above to decide who has the or more individuals to be a child’s special highest priority for admission if the distance guardian (or special guardians). between two children’s homes and the school • In accordance with legislation, a child with an is the same. Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Deferred Entry to Reception Class offered a place if the school is named in the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the Parents have the right to retain a place offered child’s individual needs, this may reduce the and request that their child be admitted to amount of places available for children who do Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 not have an EHCP. academic year or until the term in which the child reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. Parents can also request that their child takes up
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the place part-time until the child reaches applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if compulsory school age. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to The Trust setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant In addition, the parents of summer born children will have the place. may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and 1. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age Places that become available between the point which should explain why it is in the child’s best of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered interest to be admitted outside of their normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should include information such as i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. professional evidence as to why this is the case Repeat Applications and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat appropriate course of action will be made by The applications in the same academic year unless Trust who will take into account the there have been significant and material changes circumstances of the case. Parents do not have in the circumstances of the applicant. the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those
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Academy is the most appropriate school to Manor Way Primary meet the condition. Academy (Parents must provide supportive information from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time of application in order to be considered Published Admission Number: 30 under this criteria. This supportive information Manor Way Primary Academy has an Inclusive should include information about the needs of Education Policy which aims to maximise the the child and should detail the difficulties the opportunity to meet parental preference and to child would experience if they attended meet the individual needs of children wherever another school. Parents should also indicate possible. why Manor Way Primary Academy is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical Manor Way Primary Academy does not support condition rather than any other school. The the use of selective admissions policies based on Governing Body will not seek to obtain medical aptitude or academic achievement. evidence on behalf of parents.) The admission arrangements set by the c) Third priority for admission shall be given to governing body ensures that the process if fair children who have a brother/sister, half- and equitable for all. brother/sister (where the children share one Legal Context: common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, living at the same address and who will still be • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as attending Manor Way Primary Academy in the amended by the Education Act 2002 academic year 2021/2022. • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission d) Any places that remain available once the Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) above applicants have been admitted, will be (Amendment) Regulations 2012 filled according to those children who live • The Education (Admission of Looked After closest to the school, determined by a straight- Children) (England) Regulations 2005 line measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of the school. • School Admissions Code 2014 Notes Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The • Relevant looked after children means children Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the who are looked after by a local authority in Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Authority, or (b) being provided with Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. accommodation by a Local Authority in the exercise of their social services functions. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 the available places where more applications are of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. A received than can be accommodated. Child Arrangement Order settles the arrangements to be made as to the person a) First priority for admission shall be given to with whom the child is to live under section 8 relevant looked after children or children who of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the were previously looked after but immediately Children Act 1989 defines a special after being looked after became subject to an guardianship order as an order appointing one adoption, child arrangement order or special or more individuals to be a child’s special guardianship order. See notes below. guardian (or special guardians). b) Second priority for admission shall be given to • In accordance with legislation, a child with an children with a “serious and ongoing medical Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be condition” where Manor Way Primary offered a place if the school is named in the
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EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the Parents have the right to retain a place offered child’s individual needs, this may reduce the and request that their child be admitted to amount of places available for children who do Reception Class later during the 2021/22 not have an EHCP. academic year or until the term in which the child reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. • Any Dudley child not obtaining a place will be Parents can also request that their child takes up advised about the independent appeals the place part-time until the child reaches process. compulsory school age. • Definition of brother or sister also relates to Admission of children outside of their normal adopted or fostered children living at the same age group. home address. Parents may seek a place for their child outside • The home address is considered to be the of their normal age group, for example, if the child child’s (along with their parents’) genuine is gifted and talented or has experienced principal place of residence at the time of the problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocation of places i.e. where they are their application to setting out the reasons why normally and regularly living. If a child is they believe their child should be taught outside resident with friends or relatives (for reasons of their chronological age group. other than guardianship), the friends or relatives address will not be considered for In addition, the parents of summer born children allocation purposes. may choose not to send that child to school until the September following their fifth birthday and • Where parents have shared responsibility for may request that they are admitted out of their a child, and the child lives with both parents for normal age group – to reception rather than year part of the school week, then the home 1. address will be determined as the address where the child lives for the majority of the These parents will need to make an application school week. Parents will be required to alongside children applying at the normal age provide documentary evidence to support the which should explain why it is in the child’s best address they wish to be considered for interest to be admitted outside of their normal age allocation purposes. At least one item of proof which should include information such as must demonstrate where the child lives. It is professional evidence as to why this is the case expected that parents will agree on school and why an exception should be made in the case places before an application is made, and it of the child. A decision as to whether this is an may be necessary to request evidence from appropriate course of action will be made by The you to confirm that this is the case. The School Trust who will take into account the is not in a position to intervene in disputes circumstances of the case. between parents over school applications and Parents do not have the right to insist that their will request that these are resolved privately. child is admitted to a particular year group. • Special conditions will apply in the event that Please also see delayed entry policy. one child from a set of twins or triplets does www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions not gain admission to the preferred school through the admissions criteria. The Late Applications Governing Body will exceed the admission Preferences that are received after the closing number prevent separation of twins / triplets. date for receipt of applications will only be • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break considered after applications that were received in category d above to decide who has the within the deadline have been dealt with. highest priority for admission if the distance There will, however, be exceptional between two children’s homes and the school circumstances in which a late application will be is the same. considered alongside those applications that Deferred Entry to Reception Class were made within the deadline.
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In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Netherbrook Primary at the time of application. School Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have Published Admission Number: 60 been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the Principles: published admissions criteria, then those Netherbrook Primary School has an Inclusive applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if Education Policy which aims to maximise the they wish to be placed on a waiting list. opportunity to meet parental preference and to Children on the waiting list will be ranked in meet the individual needs of children wherever accordance with the published admissions possible. criteria and the list will operate from the point of Netherbrook Primary does not support the use of allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this selective admissions policies based on aptitude point the waiting list will no longer be in operation or academic achievement. and places that become available will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If The admission arrangements set by the Learning more than one application is received at the same Link Multi Academy Trust (‘The Trust’) ensures time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed that the process is fair and equitable for all. above, will be used to determine which applicant Legal Context: will have the place. • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a amended by the Education Act 2002 place will eventually become available. • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England) is subject to change during the year i.e. they can (Amendment) Regulations 2012 go up or down the list. • The Education (Admission of Looked After Places that become available between the point Children) (England)Regulations 2005 of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list • School Admissions Code 2014 i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Children will not be discriminated against as laid Repeat Applications down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The repeat applications in the same academic year Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special unless there have been significant and material Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination changes in the circumstances of the applicant. Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children with a “serious and ongoing medical
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condition” where Netherbrook is the most child’s individual needs, this may reduce the appropriate school to meet the condition. amount of places available for children who do not have an EHCP. (Parents must provide supportive information from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the • Any child not obtaining a place will be advised time of application in order to be considered about the independent appeals process. under this criteria. This supportive information • Definition of brother or sister also relates to should include information about the needs of adopted or fostered children living at the same the child and should detail the difficulties the home address. child would experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate • The home address is considered to be the why Netherbrook is the most appropriate to child’s (along with their parents’) genuine meet their child’s medical condition rather than principal place of residence at the time of the any other school. The Trust will not seek to allocation of places i.e. where they are obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents). normally and regularly living. If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for reasons c) Third priority for admission shall be given to other than guardianship), the friends or children who have a brother/sister, half- relatives address will not be considered for brother/sister (where the children share one allocation purposes. common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, living at the same address and who will still be • Where parents have shared responsibility for attending Netherbrook in the academic year a child, and the child lives with both parents for 2021/22. part of the school week, then the home address will be determined as the address d) Any places that remain available once the where the child lives for the majority of the above applicants have been admitted, will be school week. Parents will be required to filled according to those children who live provide documentary evidence to support the closest to the school, determined by a straight- address they wish to be considered for line measurement in metres, from the home allocation purposes. At least one item of proof address to the main entrance of the school. must demonstrate where the child lives. It is Notes expected that parents will agree on school places before an application is made, and it • Relevant looked after children means children may be necessary to request evidence from who are looked after by a local authority in you to confirm that this is the case. The School accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children is not in a position to intervene in disputes Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local between parents over school applications and Authority, or (b) being provided with will request that these are resolved privately. accommodation by a Local Authority in the exercise of their social services functions. • Special conditions will apply in the event that one child from a set of twins or triplets does • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 not gain admission to the preferred school of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. A through the admissions criteria. The Trust will Child Arrangement Order settles the exceed the admission number to prevent the arrangements to be made as to the person separation of twins / triplets. with whom the child is to live under section 8 of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break Children Act 1989 defines a special in category d above to decide who has the guardianship order as an order appointing one highest priority for admission if the distance or more individuals to be a child’s special between two children’s homes and the school guardian (or special guardians). is the same. • In accordance with legislation, a child with an Deferred Entry to Reception Class Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Parents have the right to retain a place offered offered a place if the school is named in the and request that their child be admitted to EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the
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Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 If the school is oversubscribed and children have academic year or until the term in which the child been refused admission because other children reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. have a higher priority for admission under the Parents can also request that their child takes up published admissions criteria, then those the place part-time until the child reaches applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if compulsory school age. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to The Trust setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant In addition, the parents of summer born children will have the place. may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and 1. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age Places that become available between the point which should explain why it is in the child’s best of allocation and 31st August 2022 will be offered interest to be admitted outside of their normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should include information such as i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. professional evidence as to why this is the case Repeat Applications and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an It is not The Trust’s Policy to consider repeat appropriate course of action will be made by The applications in the same academic year unless Trust who will take into account the there have been significant and material changes circumstances of the case. Parents do not have in the circumstances of the applicant. the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists
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Priority 2: Siblings of older pupils attending the Netherton CE Primary school at the time of admission. School Priority 3: Children of staff at the school, where Published Admission Number: 60 that member of staff has been employed for two or more years, and/or is recruited to fill a post for We believe that no child’s dreams or ambitions which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. should be limited by social injustice. We will give all of “God’s Children” the skills they need as they Priority 4: Any places that remain available once journey towards their Super North Star. the above applicants have been admitted, will be filled according to those children who live closest Netherton C of E Primary School is a part of the to the school, determined by a straight-line Diocese of Worcester Academy Trust and as measurement in metres, from the home address such is its own admissions authority but works to the main entrance of the preferred school. within the Dudley Council co-ordinated scheme. All applicants are therefore required to complete Where there are too many applicants from within a Common Application Form (CAF) which can be any of the above criteria priority will be decided obtained online from the Local Authority (LA) or on shortest distance from home address to the from the school. school. In the event of a tiebreak for priority 4, random allocation will be used to determine the All parents living within Dudley are required to final place allocated. use the common application process, which seeks five schools ranked in order of parental Explanatory Notes on the above priorities: preference. All applications must be made to the “Looked after” children: Means all those home Local Authority, including applications to currently in the care of or accommodated by a schools which are their own admissions Local Authority under the terms of the Children authorities, and must be returned to the LA by the Act 1989 and children who were previously in the closing date, which is midnight on the 15th care of or accommodated by a Local Authority but January 2021. The national allocation date for all immediately after being looked after, became primary school places is 16th April, 2021 when subject to an adoption, child arrangement order applicants will receive only one offer, which will or special guardianship order. be the highest ranked preference school which has a place available. Very occasionally none of Siblings: A sibling is defined as a brother or the preferred schools may be offered in which sister, including half-siblings, adopted children, case parents will be offered a place for their child step-siblings or a child of the parent/carer’s at the nearest available school. partner, living at the same address. Children who are brought together as a family unit by a same Class Size sex civil partnership or marriage and who are The school’s Published Admission Number living at the same address, are also considered (PAN) set by the Governing Body/Trustees is 60 to be siblings. per year group giving a total of 420 for the whole In order to qualify on the grounds of a sibling school. The Trustees retain the right to amend connection as defined above, the older child must the PAN for future years. Where applications for already be attending the school at the time of places in Reception exceed the PAN Admissions application and still be attending at the time of Criteria as given below will be followed. admission. Admissions Criteria Home address: This is defined as the only or Children who have an Education Health and Care main permanent residential address, at the time Plan, which names the school as best placed to of allocation of places, where the child usually meet their needs will be offered places before all resides and which is the usual address of the other children. After that places will be offered in parent/carer with main responsibility for the child. the following priority order: Where parents/carers have shared responsibility, the child’s home address will be considered to be Priority 1: “Looked after” and previously “Looked that of the parent/carer with whom the child lives after” children.
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for the majority of the school week (i.e., three or Waiting lists, are maintained by the Local more days out of five Monday to Friday during Authority on behalf of the school and parents term-time). Where care is split equally, need to apply, in order to be included. These parents/carers must provide independent waiting lists will be maintained until the 31 August supporting documentary evidence to prove that 2022. At that stage parents will need to reapply at care is equally split. In such cases the address the start of the following term if they wish to be of the parent/carer in receipt of Child Benefit will included. Parents must ask to join the waiting list, be the address on which the application will be it is not an automatic process. processed. Documentary evidence of a home Fair Access Protocol address may be required, including evidence that the child and his or her main parent/carer will be As part of the Local Authority’s Fair Access resident at the address at the date of admission. Protocol, the Academy will exceed the published admission number to admit pupils covered by the Shortest Distance: This will be measured as a Protocol. straight-line distance from the home address to the main entrance of the school. The LA will ‘In Year’ transfer arrangements provide information as to the precise distance. Parents/Carers wishing to apply for a place Further Information: during the school year can do so by contacting Dudley Local Authority who will issue the relevant Multiple Births application form and consult The Trust regarding In the event that one or more but not all children the decision from a multiple birth can be allocated places, all Admission of children outside of their normal of the children from that multiple birth will be age group admitted even if this takes the school over its PAN. These children are exceptions to the Infant Parents may seek a place for their child outside Class Size legislation. of their normal age group, for example, if the child is significantly performing academically above Late Applications age expectations or has experienced problems The Governing Body/Trustees have agreed in its such as ill health, effectively in the year group co-ordinated scheme to accept late applications below or above their chronological age group. In and treat them as being on time, if received by addition, the parents of a summer born child may 28th February, only in the following choose not to send that child to School until the circumstances: September following their fifth birthday and may request that they are admitted out of their normal Where a family has just moved address; (please age group – to Reception rather than Year 1. refer to the LA’s Parents’ Admissions Guide booklet) The Trust must make the decision based on the circumstances of each case and in the best Where it is agreed by the school’s Admissions interests of the child concerned. The Trust will Committee that individual circumstances apply request the Headteacher of the School to take and the delay was reasonable given the account of the parents’ views; information about circumstances of the case. the child’s academic, social and emotional In each of the above cases supporting development; where relevant, their medical documentary evidence will be required. history and the views of a medical professional; In all other circumstances, or if the application is whether they have previously been educated out not received until after the normal closing date of of their normal age group; and whether they may 15th January, late applications will receive a naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it lower priority, and will only be considered after were not for being born prematurely in order to the applications which were received (or deemed reach a decision as to whether or not it is to be) on time. appropriate for the individual child to delay or accelerate their entry into School and be taught Waiting Lists permanently behind or ahead of their
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chronological age group. The reasons for the decision must be clearly set out. Northfield Road Primary School
Published Admission Number: 60 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, a child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below.
b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children with a “serious and ongoing medical condition” where the preferred community or voluntary controlled school is the most appropriate school to meet the condition. (Parents must provide supportive information from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time of application in order to be considered under this criteria. This supportive information should include information about the needs of the child and should detail the difficulties the child would experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate why the preferred school is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical condition rather than any other school. The School will not seek to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.) c) Third priority for admission shall be given to children who have a brother/sister, half- brother/sister (where the children share one common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, living at the same address and who will still
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be attending the preferred school in the Definition of brother or sister also relates to academic year 2021/22 adopted or fostered children living at the same home address. d) Any places that remain available once the above applicants have been admitted will be The home address is considered to be the child’s filled according to those children who live (along with their parents’) genuine principal place closest to the school, determined by a of residence at the time of the allocation of straight-line measurement in metres, from places, i.e. where they are normally and regularly the home address to the main entrance of the living. If a child is resident with friends or relatives preferred school. (for reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or relatives’ address will not be considered for Notes allocation purposes. Relevant looked after children means children Where parents have shared responsibility for a who are looked after by a local authority in child, and the child lives with both parents for part accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children of the school week, then the home address will Act 1989, and who are (a) in care of a Local be determined as the address where the child Authority, or (b) being provided with lives for the majority of the school week. Parents accommodation by a Local Authority in the will be required to provide documentary evidence exercise of their social services functions (see to support the address they wish to be considered definition in Section 22 (1) of the Children Act for allocation purposes. At least one item of proof 1989) at the time of making an application to a must demonstrate where the child lives. It is school. This includes children who were adopted expected that parents will agree on school places under the Adoption Act 1976 (see Section 12 before an application is made, and it may be adoption orders) and children who were adopted necessary to request evidence from you to under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (see confirm that this is the case. The Council is not in Section 46 adoption orders). a position to intervene in disputes between Child arrangement orders are defined in Section parents over school applications and will request 8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended by that these are resolved privately. Section 12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Special conditions will apply in the event that one Child arrangement orders replace residence child from a set of twins or triplets does not gain orders and any residence order in force prior to admission to the preferred school through the 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child admissions criteria. The Council will exceed the arrangement order. admission number for the school concerned to Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a prevent separation of twins / triplets. special guardianship order as an order appointing Random allocation will be used as a tie-break in one or more individuals to be a child’s special category d above to decide who has the highest guardian (or special guardians). priority for admission if the distance between two In accordance with legislation, a child with an children’s homes and the school is the same. Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be Deferred Entry to Reception Class offered a place at the school named in the EHCP, as the most appropriate to meet the child’s Parents have the right to retain a place offered individual needs. This may reduce the number of and request that their child be admitted to places available for children who do not have an Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 EHCP. academic year or until the term in which the child reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. Any Dudley child not obtaining a school at any of Parents can also request that their child takes up their preferred primary schools will be allocated a the place part-time until the child reaches place at the next nearest school with a place compulsory school age. available and advised about the independent appeals process.
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Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to the school setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant In addition, the parents of summer born children will have the place. may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and 1. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age Places that become available between the point which should explain why it is in the child’s best of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered interest to be admitted outside of their normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should include information such as i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. professional evidence as to why this is the case Repeat Applications and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider appropriate course of action will be made by the repeat applications in the same academic year school who will take into account the unless there have been significant and material circumstances of the case. changes in the circumstances of the applicant. Parents do not have the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list.
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d) Any places that remain available once the Olive Hill Primary School above applicants have been admitted, will be Determined School Admissions Policy for Normal filled according to those children who live closest Age of Entry in Academic Year 2021/2022 to the school, determined by a straight-line measurement in metres, from the home address Published Admission Number: 60 to the main entrance of the school. Children will not be discriminated against as laid Notes down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the • Relevant looked after children means Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The children who are looked after by a local authority Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special in accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. Authority, or (b) being provided with accommodation by a Local Authority in the All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be exercise of their social services functions. assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more • An adoption order is an order under applications are received than can be Section 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act accommodated. 2002. Child arrangement orders are defined in Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended a) First priority for admission shall be given by Section 12 of the Children and Families Act to relevant looked after children or children who 2014. Child arrangement orders replace were previously looked after but immediately residence orders and any residence order in force after being looked after became subject to an prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child adoption, child arrangement order or special arrangement order. Section 14A of the Children guardianship order. See notes below. Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as b) Second priority for admission shall be an order appointing one or more individuals to be given to children with a “serious and ongoing a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). medical condition” where Olive Hill Primary • In accordance with legislation, a child with School is the most appropriate school to meet the an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be condition. offered a place if the school is named in the (Parents must provide supportive information EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the child’s from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time individual needs, this may reduce the amount of of application in order to be considered under this places available for children who do not have an criteria. This supportive information should EHCP. include information about the needs of the child • Any child not obtaining a place will be and should detail the difficulties the child would advised about the independent appeals process. experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate why Olive Hill • Definition of brother or sister also relates Primary School is the most appropriate to meet to adopted or fostered children living at the same their child’s medical condition rather than any home address. other school. The Governing Body will not seek • The home address is considered to be the to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.) child’s (along with their parents’) genuine c) Third priority for admission shall be given principal place of residence at the time of the to children who have a brother/sister, half- allocation of places i.e. where they are normally brother/sister (where the children share one and regularly living. If a child is resident with common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, friends or relatives (for reasons other than living at the same address and who will still be guardianship), the friends or relatives address will attending Olive Hill Primary School in the not be considered for allocation purposes. academic year 2021/2022. • Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents
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for part of the school week, then the home These parents will need to make an application address will be determined as the address where alongside children applying at the normal age the child lives for the majority of the school week. which should explain why it is in the child’s best Parents will be required to provide documentary interest to be admitted outside of their normal age evidence to support the address they wish to be which should include information such as considered for allocation purposes. At least one professional evidence as to why this is the case item of proof must demonstrate where the child and why an exception should be made in the case lives. It is expected that parents will agree on of the child. A decision as to whether this is an school places before an application is made, and appropriate course of action will be made by the it may be necessary to request evidence from you school who will take into account the to confirm that this is the case. The School is not circumstances of the case. in a position to intervene in disputes between Parents do not have the right to insist that their parents over school applications and will request child is admitted to a particular year group. that these are resolved privately. Late Applications • Special conditions will apply in the event that one child from a set of twins or triplets does Preferences that are received after the closing not gain admission to the preferred school date for receipt of applications will only be through the admissions criteria. The Governing considered after applications that were received Body will exceed the admission number prevent within the deadline have been dealt with. separation of twins / triplets. There will, however, be exceptional • Random allocation will be used as a tie- circumstances in which a late application will be break in category d above to decide who has the considered alongside those applications that highest priority for admission if the distance were made within the deadline. between two children’s homes and the school is In each circumstance supportive documentary the same. evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Deferred Entry to Reception Class at the time of application. Parents have the right to retain a place offered Waiting Lists and request that their child be admitted to If the school is oversubscribed and children have Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 been refused admission because other children academic year or until the term in which the child have a higher priority for admission under the reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. published admissions criteria, then those Parents can also request that their child takes up applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if the place part-time until the child reaches they wish to be placed on a waiting list. compulsory school age. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in Admission of children outside of their normal accordance with the published admissions age group. criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to the school setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place. In addition, the parents of summer born children may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and normal age group – to reception rather than year is subject to change during the year i.e. they can 1. go up or down the list. 67 | P a g e
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Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered Our Lady and St Kenelm RC to children according to their ranking on this list Primary School i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first.
Repeat Applications The admissions process for Our Lady & St It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider Kenelm Primary School is part of the Dudley repeat applications in the same academic year Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. unless there have been significant and material To apply for a place at Our Lady & St Kenelm changes in the circumstances of the applicant. Primary School in the normal admissions round, an application must be made using the school admission application process of the local authority in which you live naming Our Lady & St Kenelm RC Primary School on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2021. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly to the school by the same date (see Note 2). All applications which are submitted on time will be considered at the same time, after the closing date. No priority is given to preference ranking. If the application is submitted using the online electronic system you will be advised of the outcome of your application on 16th April 2021, or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. If you do not apply on line, the local authority will post a letter advising you of the school that your child has been offered by second class post on 16th April, or on the next working day. Please note that throughout this policy, the term parent means all natural parents, any person who is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a child and any person who has care of a child. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its governing body as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Trust Deed and Instrument of Government and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that
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the Catholic character of the school’s education 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or be fully supported by all families in the school. sister (see Note 4 below) attending Our Lady We therefore hope that all parents will give their & St Kenelm Rc Primary School at the time of full, unreserved and positive support for the aims admission. and ethos of the school. This does not affect the 8. Non-Catholic children. right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be admitted to a place at the school in Note 1 accordance with the admission arrangements. Children with an Education, Health and Care The governing body is the admissions authority (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be and has responsibility for admissions to this admitted. This will reduce the number of places school. The governing body has set its admission available to applicants. This is not an number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the oversubscription criteria. Reception class in the school year which begins Note 2 in September 2021. (See Note 1 below) In all categories, for a child to be considered as Where there are more applications for places Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or than the number of places available, places will Reception into the Church will be required. For a be offered according to the following order of definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the priority. If there is oversubscription within a Appendix. Those who face difficulties in category, the Governing Body will give priority to producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or children living closest to the school determined by Reception into the Church should contact their the shortest distance (see Note 5). Parish Priest. For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries Parents making an application for a Catholic child are as shown on the Archdiocese of Birmingham should also complete a Supplementary parish boundary map which can be accessed at Information Form (SIF) which should be returned www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-map/ directly to the school. If you do not provide the and will be applied to the admission information required in the Supplementary arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Information Form and return it by the closing date, Oversubscription Criteria together with all supporting documentation, this is likely to affect the criteria that your child is placed 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) into, which is likely to affect your child’s chance of who are looked after or previously looked after being offered a place at this school. (See Note 3 below). Note 3 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) living in the parish of Our Lady & St Kenelm A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and below) attending Our Lady & St Kenelm RC means any child who is (a) in the care of the local Primary School at the time of admission. authority or (b) being provided with accommodation by them in the exercise of their 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) social services functions (e.g. children with foster living in the parish of Our Lady & St Kenelm. parents) at the time of making the application to 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 the school. A “previously looked after child” is a below) who have a brother or sister (see Note child who immediately moved on from that status 4 below) attending Our Lady & St Kenelm RC after becoming subject to an adoption, child Primary School at the time of admission. arrangement order or special guardianship order. 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note 2 Note 4 below). For all applicants the definition of a brother or 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or sister is: previously looked after (See Note 3 below). • A brother or sister sharing the same parents
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• A half-brother or half-sister, where two Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may children share one common parent be required, plus proof of permanent residence at the property concerned. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parents’ marriage or If a child moves house after an application has where they are unrelated but their parents are been submitted, then parents must provide living as partners. documentary evidence to confirm this. A change of address will be considered up to 31st March • Adopted or fostered children 2021. After this date it may not be possible for The children must be living permanently in the the new address to be considered for allocation same household. purposes. Note 5 Where parents have shared responsibility for a Distances are calculated on the basis of a child, and the child lives with both parents for part straight-line measurement between the child’s of the week, then the main residence will be home address and the main entrance of the determined as the address where the child lives school. The Local Authority uses a computerised for the majority of the week. Parents may be system, which measures all distances in metres. requested to supply documentary evidence to Ordnance Survey supplies the co-ordinates that satisfy the Governing Body that the child lives at are used to plot a child’s home address and the the address put forward by the parents. address of the school. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of In a very small number of cases, where the an address that is subsequently found to be school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible different from a child’s normal and permanent to decide between the applications of those pupils home address, then that place is liable to be who are the final qualifiers for a place when withdrawn. applying the published admission criteria. School Entry For example, this may occur when children in the Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is same year group live at the same address, or if receiving suitable full-time education from the the distance between the home and the school is beginning of the term following the child’s fifth exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If birthday, when they will have begun to be of there is no other way of separating the application compulsory school age. according to the admissions criteria and to admit Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil both, or all, of the children would cause the will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time Published Admission Number for the child’s year basis in the September following their fourth group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on birthday. behalf of the Governing Body, will randomly select the child to be offered the final place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their child, below compulsory school age, is admitted The governing body will, where possible, admit to the school, until later in the school year but not twins and all siblings from multiple births where beyond the point at which they reach compulsory one of the children is the last child ranked within school age and not beyond the first day of the the school’s published admission number. summer term 2022. The home address is considered to be the child’s A child may take up a part-time place until later in (along with their parents’) genuine principal place the school year, but not beyond the point at which of residence at the time of the allocation of place, the child reached compulsory school age. i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or should notify the school, as soon as possible, that relatives’ address will not be considered for they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the allocation purposes. school or take up a part-time place. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls during the summer term who wishes to defer their 70 | P a g e
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child’s admission until the beginning of the application will be considered by the Governing following academic year (when the child will have Body and the parents advised of the outcome. begun to be of compulsory school age) will If the request is agreed and the year group for therefore need to make a separate in-year which the parents have requested a place is for a application for a place in Year 1 at the school. future year group, ie Reception in September Any reception class place offered following an 2022, then the original application is withdrawn application made for the 2021/22 admission and the parents must submit a fresh application round will be withdrawn if the child does not take for Reception 2022 when applications open in the up that place by the first day of the summer term autumn term of 2021. Please note that parents 2022. only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where Applications for children to be admitted into a the Governing Body agrees to consider an class outside of their normal age group application for Reception the following year, that application is considered alongside all other Parents have the right to request, but not insist, applications received and parents will be advised that their child be considered for admission to a of the outcome of that application on national class outside of their normal age group. This offer day. No place is reserved or held for the could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted child in advance. and talented, has experienced problems such as ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a If parents are considering submitting an child born between 1st April and 31st August. application for their child to be admitted into a Parents who wish for their child to be considered class outside of their normal age group, it is for admission to a class outside of their normal strongly recommended that they also read the age group must make an application for the DFE guidance which can be found at: normal age group in the first instance. Parents www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer- must then submit a formal request to the born-children-school-admission. Governing Body for the child to be considered for a different age group class instead. This request Appeals should be in the form of a written letter of Parents who wish to appeal against the decision application outlining the reasons why they wish of the Governing Body to refuse their child a place for their child to be considered to be admitted into in the school should make that appeal request in a class outside of their normal age group and writing to the Chair of Governors at the school enclosing any supportive evidence and address. Appeals will be heard by an documentation that they wish to be taken into independent panel. account as part of that request. Please note that parents do not have the right to The Governing Body will consider requests appeal if their request for their children to be submitted for a child to be admitted into a class admitted to a class outside of their normal year outside of their normal age group and advise group has been refused, but the Governing Body parents of the outcome of that request before have offered a place in the normal age group national offer day, having taken into account the instead. information provided by the parents, the child’s best interests and the views of the Head Teacher. Repeat Applications If the request is refused, the original application Any parent can apply for a place for their child at for the normal age group class will progress any time outside of the normal admissions round. through the Local Authority co-ordinated Parents do not have the right to a second appeal admissions scheme, be considered by the in respect of the same school for the same Governing Body and the parents advised of the academic year unless, in exceptional outcome. circumstances, the Governing Body has accepted a second application from the parent If the request is agreed and the year group for because of a significant and material change in which the parents have requested a place is a the circumstances of the parent, child or school, current year group in the school, then the but have still refused admission.
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Late Applications list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Late applications will be dealt with in accordance with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a admissions scheme. This states that applications place will eventually become available. It may be that are received after the closing date deadline that those already offered places may accept of 15th January 2021 will only be considered after them, thereby filling all available places. applications that were received within the Children who are the subject of a direction by the deadline have been dealt with. There will, Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a however, be exceptional circumstances in which school in accordance with the Fair Access a late application will be considered alongside Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting those applications that were made within the list. deadline. Where the exceptional circumstances are such that the parent could not have In Year Fair Access Protocol reasonably submitted the application within the The Governing Body of Our Lady & St Kenelm deadline, it will be considered along with all other RC Primary School is committed to taking its fair applicants. In each circumstance, supporting share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard documentary evidence must be provided by the to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. parent at the time of application. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round You are encouraged to ensure that your the governing body is empowered to give application is received on time. absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Change in Preference Governing Body has this power, even when Once parents have submitted their preference, admitting the child would mean exceeding the they will not be allowed to change them without published admission number subject to the infant an exceptional change in their circumstances, for class size exceptions. example, if the family has recently moved Applications other than the normal intake to address or an older sibling has changed schools. Reception Class (In-Year Admissions) All requests to change preferences should be made in writing to the Local Authority to whom the An application can be made for a place for a child parents submitted the original application. Where at any time outside the normal admission round a change of preference is submitted for an and the child will be admitted where there are oversubscribed school, without an exceptional places available. Applications should be made to change in circumstances, then the application will the local authority who will need to consult with be refused. the Governors. Where there are places available but more applications than places, the published Waiting List oversubscription criteria, as set out for the normal In addition to their right to appeal, children who round of admissions, will be applied. have not been offered a place at Our Lady & St If there are no places available, the child will be Kenelm RC Primary School can request that their added to the waiting list (see above). name be added to a waiting list. The waiting list will be maintained until the end of the summer Parents will be advised of the outcome of their term 2022 and will then be discarded. application in writing and, where the Governing Body’s decision is to refuse their child a place, A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. have the right to appeal to an independent appeal When a new child joins the waiting list, all panel. applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to ensure that the list is always maintained in There is no charge or cost related to the oversubscription criteria order. This means that admission of a child to this school. a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting
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living at the same address and who will still be Pedmore CE Primary attending the school in September 2021. School d) Any places that remain available once the Pedmore C.E Primary School has an Inclusive above applicants have been admitted, will be Education Policy and the admissions policy aims filled according to those children who live closest to maximise the opportunity to meet parental to the school, determined by a straight-line preferences and to meet the individual needs of measurement in metres, from the home address children wherever possible. The School does not to the main entrance of Pedmore C.E Primary use a selective policy based on aptitude or school. academic achievement. Notes Children will not be discriminated against as laid • Relevant looked after children means down by the Sex Discrimination Act children who are looked after by a local authority 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended in accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local The Human Rights Act 1998, The Special Authority, or (b) being provided with Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination accommodation by a Local Authority in the Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. exercise of their social services functions. Admission Number - 30 • An adoption order is an order under Section 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act The following criteria will be used to allocate 2002. Child arrangement orders are defined in the available places if more applications are Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended received than spaces available. by Section 12 of the Children and Families Act a) First priority for admission shall be given 2014. Child arrangement orders replace to relevant looked after children or children who residence orders and any residence order in force were previously looked after, but immediately prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child after being looked after, became subject to an arrangement order. Section 14A of the Children adoption, child arrangement order or special Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as guardianship order. See notes below. an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children with a “serious and ongoing • In accordance with legislation, a child with medical condition” where Pedmore C.E Primary an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan, will school is the most appropriate school to meet the be offered a place if the school is named in the condition. Plan as the most appropriate to meet the child’s individual needs, this may reduce the amount of (Parents must provide supportive information places available for children who do not have an from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan. of application, in order to be considered under this criteria. This supportive information should • Any child not obtaining a place will be include information about the needs of the child advised about the independent appeals process. and should detail the difficulties the pupil would • Definition of brother or sister also relates experience if they had to attend another school. to adopted or fostered children living at the same Parents should also indicate why Pedmore C.E home address. Primary school is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical condition, rather than any • The home address is considered to be the other school. The Governing Body will not seek child’s (along with their parents’) genuine to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.) principal place of residence at the time of the allocation of places i.e. where they are normally c) Third priority for admission shall be given and regularly living. If a child is resident with to children who have a brother/sister, half- friends or relatives (for reasons other than brother/sister (where the children share one common parent), or step-brother/step-sister,
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guardianship), the friends or relatives address will Co-ordinated Scheme which is available from not be considered for allocation purposes. The School Admissions Service. Parents will be required to provide documentary Applications for children to be admitted into a evidence to support the address at which they class outside of their normal age group wish to be considered for allocation purposes. If parents wish for their child to be considered for N.B If your address changes you must notify admission to a class outside of their normal age Governors before the closing date for group, they should make an application for the applications. normal age group in the first instance. Parents Governors’ reserve the right to withdraw a should then submit a formal request to the place subsequently found to have been based Governing Body. This request should be in the on fraudulent or intentionally misleading form of a written letter of application outlining the information. reasons why they wish for their child to be considered to be admitted into a class outside of • Where parents have shared responsibility their normal age group, and enclosing any for a child, and the child lives with both parents supportive evidence and documentation that they for part of the school week, then the home wish to be taken into account as part of that address will be determined as the address where request. The Governing Body will consider the child lives for the majority of the school week. applications submitted and advise the parents of Parents will be required to provide documentary the outcome of their application before the evidence to support the address they wish to be national offer day, having taken into account the considered for allocation purposes. At least one information provided by the parents, the child’s item of proof must demonstrate where the child best interests and the views of the Headteacher. lives. If parents are considering submitting an • Special conditions will apply in the event application for their child to be admitted into a that one child from a set of twins or triplets does class outside of their normal age group, it is not gain admission to the preferred school strongly recommended that they also read the through the admissions criteria. The Governing DFE Guidance which can be found at Body will exceed the admission number for the school concerned to prevent separation of twins / www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer- triplets. born-children-schooladmission • Random allocation will be used as a tie- Late Applications break in category d above to decide who has the Preferences that are received after the closing highest priority for admission if the distance date will only be considered after applications that between two children’s homes and the school is were received within the deadline have been the same. dealt with. Deferred Entry to Reception Class There will, however, be exceptional Parents have the right to retain a place offered circumstances in which a late application will be and request that their child be admitted to considered alongside those applications that Reception Class later during the 2021/22 were made within the deadline. academic year or until the term in which the child In each circumstance supportive documentary reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Parents can also request that their child takes up at the time of application. the place part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age. Waiting Lists Application Process (Normal age of entry to If the school is oversubscribed and children have Reception Class) been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the All applications will be co-ordinated via the home published admissions criteria, then those Local Authority of the applicant. Further details applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if and timescales are set out in the Local Authority’s they wish to be placed on a waiting list. 74 | P a g e
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Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the schools published Priory Primary School admissions criteria and the list will operate from Published Admission Number: 90 the point of allocation of places until 31 August 2022. After this point the waiting list will no longer Children will not be discriminated against as laid be in operation and places will be allocated on a down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The first come first served basis. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special that a place will eventually become available Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination there. A child’s position on a waiting list is not Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. fixed and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to Places that become available (below the allocate the available places where more published admission number or any number that applications are received than can be the school agree they can admit) between the accommodated. point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on a) First priority for admission shall be given this list i.e. those ranked highest will be offered to relevant looked after children or children who first. were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an Repeat Applications adoption, child arrangement order or special It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider guardianship order. See notes below. repeat applications in the same academic year b) Second priority for admission shall be unless there have been significant and material given to children of staff in either or both of the change in the circumstances of the applicant. following circumstances: In Year Applications 1. Where the member of staff has been All applications made for children wishing to employed at the school for two or more join Pedmore CE Primary School are years at the time at which the application coordinated by The School Admissions for admission to the school is made, Service of Dudley Local Authority, who also and/or hold all waiting lists. 2. The member of staff is recruited to fill a Governors agree to exceed the PAN by three vacant post for which there is a children in Key Stage 2 classes. Places that demonstrable skills shortage become available in the Year 3 class in c) Third priority for admission shall be given September, are allocated according to the to children who have a brother/sister, half- published admission policy by Dudley School brother/sister (where the children share one Admissions Service, on the last day of the first common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, half of the preceding Summer Term. living at the same address and who will still be attending Priory Primary School in the academic year 2021/22. d) Any places that remain available once the above applicants have been admitted, will be filled according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a straight-line measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of the school.
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Notes lives. It is expected that parents will agree on school places before an application is made, and • Relevant looked after children means it may be necessary to request evidence from you children who are looked after by a local authority to confirm that this is the case. The School is not in accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children in a position to intervene in disputes between Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local parents over school applications and will request Authority, or (b) being provided with that these are resolved privately. accommodation by a Local Authority in the exercise of their social services functions. • Special conditions will apply in the event that one child from a set of twins or triplets does • An adoption order is an order under not gain admission to the preferred school Section 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act through the admissions criteria. The Governing 2002. Child arrangement orders are defined in Body will exceed the admission number prevent Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as amended separation of twins / triplets. by Section 12 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Child arrangement orders replace • Random allocation will be used as a tie- residence orders and any residence order in force break in category d above to decide who has the prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed to be a child highest priority for admission if the distance arrangement order. Section 14A of the Children between two children’s homes and the school is Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as the same. an order appointing one or more individuals to be Deferred Entry to Reception Class a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). Parents have the right to retain a place offered • In accordance with legislation, a child with and request that their child be admitted to an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 offered a place if the school is named in the academic year or until the term in which the child EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the child’s reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. individual needs, this may reduce the amount of Parents can also request that their child takes up places available for children who do not have an the place part-time until the child reaches EHCP. compulsory school age. • Any child not obtaining a place will be Admission of children outside of their normal advised about the independent appeals process. age group. • Definition of brother or sister also relates Parents may seek a place for their child outside to adopted or fostered children living at the same of their normal age group, for example, if the child home address. is gifted and talented or has experienced • The home address is considered to be the problems such as ill health. Parents should make child’s (along with their parents’) genuine their application to The Trust setting out the principal place of residence at the time of the reasons why they believe their child should be allocation of places i.e. where they are normally taught outside of their chronological age group. and regularly living. If a child is resident with In addition, the parents of summer born children friends or relatives (for reasons other than may choose not to send that child to school until guardianship), the friend’s or relative’s address the September following their fifth birthday and will not be considered for allocation purposes. may request that they are admitted out of their • Where parents have shared responsibility normal age group – to reception rather than year for a child, and the child lives with both parents 1. for part of the school week, then the home These parents will need to make an application address will be determined as the address where alongside children applying at the normal age the child lives for the majority of the school week. which should explain why it is in the child’s best Parents will be required to provide documentary interest to be admitted outside of their normal age evidence to support the address they wish to be which should include information such as considered for allocation purposes. At least one professional evidence as to why this is the case item of proof must demonstrate where the child
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and why an exception should be made in the case It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat of the child. A decision as to whether this is an applications in the same academic year unless appropriate course of action will be made by The there have been significant and material changes Trust who will take into account the in the circumstances of the applicant. circumstances of the case. Parents do not have the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this point the waiting list will no longer be in operation and places that become available will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If more than one application is received at the same time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed above, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place. Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Repeat Applications
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d) Any places that remain available once the Sledmere Primary School above applicants have been admitted, will be filled according to those children who live closest to the school, determined by a Published Admission Number: 90 straight-line measurement in metres, from Children will not be discriminated against as laid the home address to the main entrance of down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The the school. Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Notes Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special • Relevant looked after children means children Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination who are looked after by a local authority in Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be Local Authority, or (b) being provided with assessed against the following criteria to allocate accommodation by a Local Authority in the the available places where more applications are exercise of their social services functions. received than can be accommodated. • An adoption order is an order under Section a) First priority for admission shall be given to 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. relevant looked after children or children Child arrangement orders are defined in who were previously looked after but Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as immediately after being looked after amended by Section 12 of the Children and became subject to an adoption, child Families Act 2014. Child arrangement orders arrangement order or special guardianship replace residence orders and any residence order. See notes below. order in force prior to 22 April 2014 is deemed b) Second priority for admission shall be given to be a child arrangement order. Section 14A to children with a “serious and ongoing of the Children Act 1989 defines a special medical condition” where Sledmere is the guardianship order as an order appointing most appropriate school to meet the one or more individuals to be a child’s special condition. guardian (or special guardians). (Parents must provide supportive • In accordance with legislation, a child with an information from their child’s Hospital Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Consultant at the time of application in offered a place if the school is named in the order to be considered under this criteria. EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the This supportive information should include child’s individual needs, this may reduce the information about the needs of the child and amount of places available for children who should detail the difficulties the child would do not have an EHCP. experience if they attended another school. Parents should also indicate why Sledmere • Any child not obtaining a place will be advised about the independent appeals process. is the most appropriate to meet their child’s medical condition rather than any other • Definition of brother or sister also relates to school. The Trust will not seek to obtain adopted or fostered children living at the medical evidence on behalf of parents). same home address. c) Third priority for admission shall be given to • The home address is considered to be the children who have a brother/sister, half- child’s (along with their parents’) genuine brother/sister (where the children share one principal place of residence at the time of the common parent), or step-brother/step- allocation of places i.e. where they are sister, living at the same address and who normally and regularly living. If a child is will still be attending Sledmere in the resident with friends or relatives (for reasons academic year 2021/2022. other than guardianship), the friend’s or relative’s address will not be considered for allocation purposes. 78 | P a g e
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• Where parents have shared responsibility for the September following their fifth birthday and a child, and the child lives with both parents may request that they are admitted out of their for part of the school week, then the home normal age group – to reception rather than year address will be determined as the address 1. where the child lives for the majority of the These parents will need to make an application school week. Parents will be required to alongside children applying at the normal age provide documentary evidence to support the which should explain why it is in the child’s best address they wish to be considered for interest to be admitted outside of their normal age allocation purposes. At least one item of proof which should include information such as must demonstrate where the child lives. It is professional evidence as to why this is the case expected that parents will agree on school and why an exception should be made in the case places before an application is made, and it of the child. A decision as to whether this is an may be necessary to request evidence from appropriate course of action will be made by The you to confirm that this is the case. The Trust who will take into account the School is not in a position to intervene in circumstances of the case. Parents do not have disputes between parents over school the right to insist that their child is admitted to a applications and will request that these are particular year group. resolved privately. Late Applications • Special conditions will apply in the event that one child from a set of twins or triplets does Preferences that are received after the closing not gain admission to the preferred school date for receipt of applications will only be through the admissions criteria. The Trust will considered after applications that were received exceed the admission number to prevent the within the deadline have been dealt with. separation of twins / triplets. There will, however, be exceptional • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break circumstances in which a late application will be in category d above to decide who has the considered alongside those applications that highest priority for admission if the distance were made within the deadline. between two children’s homes and the school In each circumstance supportive documentary is the same. evidence must be provided by the parent / carer Deferred Entry to Reception Class at the time of application. Parents have the right to retain a place offered Waiting Lists and request that their child be admitted to If the school is oversubscribed and children have Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 been refused admission because other children academic year or until the term in which the child have a higher priority for admission under the reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. published admissions criteria, then those Parents can also request that their child takes up applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if the place part-time until the child reaches they wish to be placed on a waiting list. compulsory school age. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in Admission of children outside of their normal accordance with the published admissions age group. criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to The Trust setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time, the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant will have the place. In addition, the parents of summer born children may choose not to send that child to school until
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Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. St. Chad’s Catholic Primary A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and School is subject to change during the year i.e. they can Published Admission Number: 30 go up or down the list. St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School is part of the Places that become available between the point St. John Bosco Catholic Academy. The of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered admissions authority for the school is the Board to children according to their ranking on this list of Directors of the St. John Bosco Catholic i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Academy who has responsibility for admissions Repeat Applications to this school. The Board of Directors has delegated responsibility for the administration of It is not The Trust’s Policy to consider repeat the admissions process to the Academy applications in the same academic year unless Committee of St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. The admissions process for St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School is part of the Dudley Local Authority co- ordinated admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School in the normal admissions round, an application must be made using the school admission application process of the local authority in which you live naming St. Chad’s Catholic Primary School on the application form. Applications need to be made by 15th January 2020. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) must also be completed and returned directly to the school by the same date (see Note 2). All applications which are submitted on time will be considered at the same time, after the closing date. No priority is given to preference ranking. If the application is submitted using the online electronic system you will be advised of the outcome of your application on 16th April 2021, or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. If you do not apply online, the local authority will post a letter advising you of the school that your child has been offered by second class post on 16th April 2021, or on the next working day. Please note that throughout this policy, the term parent means all natural parents, any person who is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a child and any person who has care of a child. The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to Catholic children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by
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its Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Note 4 below) attending St Chad’s at the time of Church in accordance with its Articles of admission. Association and seeks at all times to be a witness 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see to Our Lord Jesus Christ. note 2 below). As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, after or previously looked after (See Note 3 Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every below). aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother be fully supported by all families in the school. We or sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Chad’s therefore hope that all parents will give their full, at the time of admission. unreserved and positive support for the aims and 8. Non-Catholic children. ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for Note 1 and be admitted to a place at the school in Children with an Education, Health and Care accordance with the admission arrangements. (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be The Board of Directors has set its admission admitted. This will reduce the number of places number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the available to applicants. This is not an Reception class in the school year which begins oversubscription criteria. in September 2021. (See Note 1 below) Note 2 Where there are more applications for places In all categories, for a child to be considered as than the number of places available, places will Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or be offered according to the following order of Reception int the Church will be required. For a priority. If there is oversubscription within a definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the category, the Board of Directors will give priority Appendix. Those who face difficulties in to children living closest to the school determined producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or by the shortest distance (see Note 5). Reception into the Church should contact their For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries Parish Priest. are as shown on the Archdiocese of Birmingham Parents making an application for a Catholic child parish boundary map which can be accessed at should also complete a Supplementary www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-map/ Information Form (SIF) which should be returned and will be applied to the admission directly to the school. If you do not provide the arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. information required in the Supplementary Oversubscription Criteria Information Form and return it by the closing date, together with all supporting documentation, this is 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 likely to affect the criteria that your child is placed below) who are looked after or previously looked into, which is likely to affect your child’s chance of after (See Note 3 below). being offered a place at this school. 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 Note 3 below) living in the parish of Parish of St Chad and All Saints, Sedgley and St Peter and the A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in English Martyrs, Lower Gornal, who have a section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and brother or sister (see Note 4 below) in St Chad’s means any child who is (a) in the care of the local school at the time of admission authority or (b) being provided with accommodation by them in the exercise of their 3. Baptised Catholic children living within the social services functions (eg children with foster Parish of St Chad and All Saints, Sedgley and St parents) at the time of making the application to Peter and the English Martyrs, Lower Gornal. the school. A “previously looked after child” is a 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see child who immediately moved on from that status Note 2 below) who have a brother or sister (see
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after becoming subject to an adoption, child The home address is considered to be the child’s arrangement order or special guardianship order. (along with their parents’) genuine principal place of residence at the time of the allocation of place, Note 4 i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. For all applicants the definition of a brother or If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for sister is: reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or • A brother or sister sharing the same relatives’ address will not be considered for parents allocation purposes. • A half-brother or half-sister, where two Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may children share one common parent be required, plus proof of permanent residence at the property concerned. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parents’ marriage or If a child moves house after an application has where they are unrelated but their parents are been submitted, then parents must provide living as partners. documentary evidence to confirm this. A change of address will be considered up to 31st March • Adopted or fostered children 2021 (only applies to Dudley residents.) After this The children must be living permanently in the date it may not be possible for the new address same household. to be considered for allocation purposes. Note 5 Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part Distances are calculated on the basis of a of the week, then the main residence will be straight-line measurement between the child’s determined as the address where the child lives home address and the main entrance of the for the majority of the week. Parents may be school. The Local Authority uses a computerised requested to supply documentary evidence to system, which measures all distances in metres. satisfy the Board of Directors that the child lives Ordnance Survey supplies the co-ordinates that at the address put forward by the parents. are used to plot a child’s home address and the address of the school. If a place in the school is offered on the basis of an address that is subsequently found to be In a very small number of cases, where the different from a child’s normal and permanent school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible home address, then that place is liable to be to decide between the applications of those pupils withdrawn. who are the final qualifiers for a place when applying the published admission criteria. School Entry For example, this may occur when children in the Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is same year group live at the same address, or if receiving suitable full-time education from the the distance between the home and the school is beginning of the term following the child’s fifth exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If birthday, when they will have begun to be of there is no other way of separating the application compulsory school age. according to the admissions criteria and to admit Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil both, or all, of the children would cause the will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time Published Admission Number for the child’s year basis in the September following their fourth group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on birthday. behalf of the Board of Directors, will randomly select the child to be offered the final place. A child’s parents may defer the date at which their child, below compulsory school age, is admitted The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit to the school, until later in the school year but not twins and all siblings from multiple births where beyond the point at which they reach compulsory one of the children is the last child ranked within school age and not beyond the first day of the the school’s published admission number. summer term 2022.
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A child may take up a part-time place until later in If the request is refused, the original application the school year, but not beyond the point at which for the normal age group class will progress the child reached compulsory school age. through the Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme, be considered by the Board Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent of Directors and the parents advised of the should notify the school, as soon as possible, that outcome. they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school or take up a part-time place. If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is a The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls current year group in the school, then the during the summer term who wishes to defer their application will be considered by the Board of child’s admission until the beginning of the Directors and the parents advised of the following academic year (when the child will have outcome. begun to be of compulsory school age) will therefore need to make a separate in-year If the request is agreed and the year group for application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Any which the parents have requested a place is for a reception class place offered following an future year group, ie Reception in September application made for the 2021/2022 admission 2022, then the original application is withdrawn round will be withdrawn if the child does not take and the parents must submit a fresh application up that place by the first day of the summer term for Reception 2022 when applications open in the 2022. autumn term of 2021. Please note that parents only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where Applications for children to be admitted into a the Board of Directors agrees to consider an class outside of their normal age group application for Reception the following year, that Parents have the right to request, but not insist, application is considered alongside all other that their child be considered for admission to a applications received and parents will be advised class outside of their normal age group. This of the outcome of that application on national could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted offer day. No place is reserved or held for the and talented, has experienced problems such as child in advance. ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a If parents are considering submitting an child born between 1st April and 31st August. application for their child to be admitted into a Parents who wish for their child to be considered class outside of their normal age group, it is for admission to a class outside of their normal strongly recommended that they also read the age group must make an application for the DFE guidance which can be found at: normal age group in the first instance. Parents must then submit a formal request to the Board of www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer- Directors for the child to be considered for a born-children-school-admission different age group class instead. This request Appeals should be in the form of a written letter of application outlining the reasons why they wish Parents who wish to appeal against the decision for their child to be considered to be admitted into of the Board of Directors to refuse their child a a class outside of their normal age group and place in the school should make that appeal enclosing any supportive evidence and request in writing to the Board of Directors at the documentation that they wish to be taken into school address. Appeals will be heard by an account as part of that request. independent panel. The Board of Directors will consider requests Please note that parents do not have the right to submitted for a child to be admitted into a class appeal if their request for their child to be outside of their normal age group and advise admitted to a class outside of their normal year parents of the outcome of that request before group has been refused, but the Board of national offer day, having taken into account the Directors have offered a place in the normal age information provided by the parents, the child’s group instead. best interests and the views of the Headteacher.
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Repeat Applications name be added to a waiting list. The waiting list will be maintained until the last day of the summer Any parent can apply for a place for their child at term 2022 and will then be discarded. any time outside of the normal admissions round. Parents do not have the right to a second appeal A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. in respect of the same school for the same When a new child joins the waiting list, all academic year unless, in exceptional applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to circumstances, the Board of Directors has ensure that the list is always maintained in accepted a second application from the parent oversubscription criteria order. This means that a because of a significant and material change in child’s position on the waiting list could go up or the circumstances of the parent, child or school, down during the time that it is on the list. Any late but have still refused admission. applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription Late Applications criteria. Late applications will be dealt with in accordance Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated place will eventually become available. It may be admissions scheme. This states that applications that those already offered places may accept that are received after the closing date deadline them, thereby filling all available places. of 15th January 2021 will only be considered after applications that were received within the Children who are the subject of a direction by the deadline have been dealt with. There will, Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a however, be exceptional circumstances in which school in accordance with the Fair Access a late application will be considered alongside Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting those applications that were made within the list. deadline. Where the exceptional circumstances In Year Fair Access Protocol are such that the parent could not have reasonably submitted the application within the The Board of Directors of St. Chad’s Catholic deadline, it will be considered along with all other Primary School is committed to taking its fair applicants. In each circumstance, supporting share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard documentary evidence must be provided by the to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. parent at the time of application. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give You are encouraged to ensure that your absolute priority to a child where admission is application is received on time. requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Change In Preference Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the Once parents have submitted their preference, published admission number subject to the infant they will not be allowed to change them without class size exceptions. an exceptional change in their circumstances, for example, if the family has recently moved Applications other than the normal intake to address or an older sibling has changed schools. reception class (in-year admissions) All requests to change preferences should be An application can be made for a place for a child made in writing to the Local Authority to whom the at any time outside the normal admission round parents submitted the original application. Where and the child will be admitted where there are a change of preference is submitted for an places available. Applications should be made to oversubscribed school, without an exceptional the school by contacting St. Chad’s Catholic change in circumstances, then the application will Primary School and all families approaching the be refused. school will be given an application form. Where Waiting List there are places available but more applications than places, the published oversubscription In addition to their right to appeal, children who criteria, as set out for the normal round of have not been offered a place at St. Chad’s admissions, will be applied. Catholic Primary School can request that their
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If there are no places available, the child will be added to the waiting list (see above). St James’s CE Primary Parents will be advised of the outcome of their School application in writing and, where the Board of Published Admission Number: 60 Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, have the right to appeal to an independent appeal Principles: panel. St. James’s C.E. Primary has an Inclusive There is no charge or cost related to the Education Policy which aims to maximise the admission of a child to this school. opportunity to meet parental preference and to meet the individual needs of children wherever possible. St. James’s C.E. Primary does not support the use of selective admissions policies based on aptitude or academic achievement. The admission arrangements set by the governing body ensures that the process if fair and equitable for all. Legal Context: • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as amended by the Education Act 2002 • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools)(England)(Amendment) Regulations 2012 • The Education (Admission of Looked After Children)(England)Regulations 2005 • School Admissions Code 2014 Proposed School Admissions Policy for Normal Age of Entry in Academic Year 2021/2022 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant Looked after children and all previously looked after children. Previously looked after children are children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child
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arrangements order or special guardianship 1. A ‘looked after child’ is a child who is a) in order). Further references to previously looked the care of a local authority, or b) being provided after children means such children who were with accommodation by a local authority in the adopted (or subject to child arrangements orders exercise of their social services functions (see the or special guardianship orders) immediately definition in section 22 (1) of the Children’s Act following having been looked after. (see notes) 1989) at the time of making an application to the school. This includes children who were adopted b) Second priority for admission shall be under the Adoption Act 1976 (see section 12 given to children with a “serious and ongoing adoption orders) and children who were adopted medical condition” where St. James’s C.E. under the Adoption and Children’s Act 2002 Child Primary is the most appropriate school to meet arrangement orders are defined in section 8 of the condition. the Children Act1989, as amended by section 12 (Parents must provide supportive information of the Children and Families Act 2014.Child from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time arrangement orders replace residence orders of application in order to be considered under this and any residence in force prior to 22 April 2014 criteria. This supportive information should is deemed to be a child arrangements order include information about the needs of the child Section 14A of the Children Act 1989 defines a and should detail the difficulties the child would ‘special guardianship order’ as an order experience if they attended another school. appointing one or more individuals to be a child’s Parents should also indicate why St. James’s special guardian (or special guardians). C.E. Primary is the most appropriate to meet their 2. In accordance with legislation, a child with child’s medical condition rather than any other an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan will be school. The Governing Body will not seek to offered a place at the school named in the most obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.) appropriate to meet the child’s individual needs, c) Third priority for admission shall be given this may reduce the amount of places available to children who have a brother/sister, half for children who do not have an Education, Health brother/sister (where the children share one and Care (EHC) Plan. common parent), or step-brother / step-sister, 3. Any Dudley child not obtaining a place will living at the same address and who will still be be advised about the independent appeals attending St. James’s C.E. Primary in the process. academic year 2021/2022. 4. Definition of brother or sister also relates d) Families who can demonstrate a close to adopted or fostered children living at the same commitment to St James's Church, Wollaston. home address. The definition of a brother or sister (See note 5 below) is: e) Families who can demonstrate a close A brother or sister sharing the same commitment to a recognised Christian Church. parents; (See note 5 below) Half-brother or half-sister, where two f) Children of families committed to the children have one common parent; practice of other religions who would like their children educated at a Church of England School. Step-brother or step-sister, where two (See note 5 below) children are related by a parent’s marriage; g) Any places that remain available once the 5. In assessing eligibility under priorities d, e above applicants have been admitted, will be and f consideration will be given to any filled according to those children who live closest information about religious affiliations supplied by to the school, determined by a straight-line local religious leaders. If you are applying under measurement in metres, from the home address one of these categories, you will need to to the main entrance of the school. complete a supplementary form, available from the school office. “Attendance at a place of
worship must be at least once per month for at Notes least one year prior to application”. The form has
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to be signed by the parish priest, minister, reasons why they believe their child should be religious leader or church warden, and returned taught outside of their chronological age group. to the school. In addition, the parents of summer born children 6. The home address of a pupil is may choose not to send that child to school until considered to be the permanent residence of a the September following their fifth birthday and child. The address must be the child’s only or may request that they are admitted out of their main residence for the majority of the school normal age group – to reception rather than year week. Documentary evidence may be required. If 1. a child is resident with friends or relatives (for These parents will need to make an application reasons other than guardianship), the friends or alongside children applying at the normal age relative’s address will not be considered for which should explain why it is in the child’s best allocation purposes. interest to be admitted outside of their normal age 7. Where parents have shared responsibility which should include information such as for a child, and the child lives with both parents professional evidence as to why this is the case for part of the school week, then the home and why an exception should be made in the case address will be determined as the address where of the child. A decision as to whether this is an the child lives for the majority of the school week. appropriate course of action will be made by The Parents will be required to provide documentary Council who will take into account the evidence to support the address they wish to be circumstances of the case. Parents do not have considered for allocation purposes. At least one the right to insist that their child is admitted to a item of proof must demonstrate where the child particular year group. lives. Please also see delayed entry policy. 8. Special conditions will apply in the event www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions that one child from a set of twins or triplets does Late Applications not gain admission to the preferred school through the admission criteria. The Governing Preferences that are received after the closing body will exceed the admissions number for the date for receipt of applications will only be school to prevent separation of twins/triplets. considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. 9. Random allocation will be used as a tie- break to decide who has the highest priority for There will, however, be exceptional admission if the distance between two children’s circumstances in which a late application will be homes and the school is the same. considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. Deferred Entry to Reception Class In each circumstance supportive documentary Parents have the right to retain a place offered evidence must be provided by the parent / carer and request that their child be admitted to at the time of application. Reception Class later during the 2020/2021 academic year or until the term in which the child Waiting Lists reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. If the school is oversubscribed and children have Parents can also request that their child takes up been refused admission because other children the place part-time until the child reaches have a higher priority for admission under the compulsory school age. published admissions criteria, then those Admission of children outside of their normal applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if age group. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Parents may seek a place for their child outside Children on the waiting list will be ranked in of their normal age group, for example, if the child accordance with the published admissions is gifted and talented or has experienced criteria and the list will operate from the point of problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this their application to The Council setting out the point the waiting list will no longer be in operation and places that become available will be 87 | P a g e
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allocated on a first come first basis. If more than For convenience, given that we understand a one application is received at the same time, the large number of similar requests are being made, oversubscription criteria, as detailed on page 3, the Governing Body consents to the Diocese will be used to determine which applicant will submitting this request on our behalf, along with have the place. those of other schools making such requests for this variation. Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. This request is made in accordance with the DfE guidance on governing body business during the A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and pandemic, as it is a matter of importance and is is subject to change during the year i.e. they can time limited, given the relevant admissions go up or down the list. timescales. Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2020 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. Repeat Applications It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider repeat applications in the same academic year unless there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. Proposal for variation to the admissions arrangements for September 2021 As Chair of Governors, I write to confirm that by Chair's Action, the Governing Body of this school resolve to propose that a variation be made to the admissions arrangements for admission to Reception classes in September 2021, in respect of the oversubscription criteria relating to church attendance. The variation requested is that "In the event that during the period specified for attendance at worship the church [or, in relation to those of other faiths, relevant place of worship has been closed for public worship and has not provided alternative premises for that worship, the requirements of these admissions arrangements in relation to attendance will only apply to the period when the church [or in relation to those of other faiths, relevant place of worship] or alternative premises have been available for public worship". This request is made in order that parents seeking admission to the school can readily determine what the admissions oversubscription criteria are and how they may be met, and thereby enable the school to deal lawfully, fairly and transparently with admissions matters in the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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children in accordance with the oversubscription St Joseph’s Catholic criteria listed below. The school is conducted by Primary School, Dudley its Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Articles of Published Admission Number: 30 Association and seeks at all times to be a witness St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is part of the to Our Lord Jesus Christ. St John Bosco Catholic Multi Academy Company As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic (Dudley). The admissions authority for the school education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, is the Board of Directors of the St John Bosco Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Catholic Multi Academy Company who has aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that responsibility for admissions to this school. The the Catholic character of the school’s education Board of Directors has delegated responsibility be fully supported by all families in the school. for the administration of the admissions process We therefore hope that all parents will give their to the Academy Committee of St Joseph’s full, unreserved and positive support for the aims Catholic Primary School, Dudley. and ethos of the school. This does not affect the The admissions process for St Joseph’s Catholic right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply Primary School, Dudley is part of the Dudley for and be admitted to a place at the school in Local Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. accordance with the admission arrangements. To apply for a place at St Joseph’s Catholic The Board of Directors has set its admission Primary School, Dudley in the normal admissions number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the round, an application must be made using the Reception class in the school year which begins school admission application process of the local in September 2021. (See Note 1 below) authority in which you live naming St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Dudley on the Where there are more applications for places application form. Applications need to be made than the number of places available, places will by 15th January 2021. A Supplementary be offered according to the following order of Information Form (SIF) must also be completed priority. If there is oversubscription within a and returned directly to the school by the same category, the Board of Directors will give priority date (see Note 2). to children living closest to the school determined by the shortest distance (see Note 5). All applications which are submitted on time will be considered at the same time, after the closing For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries date. No priority is given to preference ranking. are as shown on the Archdiocese of Birmingham parish boundary map which can be accessed at If the application is submitted using the online www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-map/ electronic system you will be advised of the and will be applied to the admission outcome of your application on 16th April 2021, arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. If you do not apply online, Oversubscription Criteria the local authority will post a letter advising you of 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 the school that your child has been offered by below) who are looked after or previously looked second class post on 16th April 2021, or on the after (See Note 3 below). next working day. 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 Please note that throughout this policy, the term below) living in the parish of Our Blessed Lady parent means all natural parents, any person who and St Thomas of Canterbury, Dudley who have is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a brother or sister (see Note 4 below) attending a child and any person who has care of a child. St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Dudley at The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school the time of admission. was founded by the Catholic Church to provide 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 education for children of Catholic families. below) living in the parish of Our Blessed Lady Whenever there are more applications than and St Thomas of Canterbury, Dudley. places available, priority will be given to Catholic
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4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see authority or (b) being provided with Note 2 below) who have a brother or sister (see accommodation by them in the exercise of their Note 4 below) attending St Joseph’s Catholic social services functions (e.g. children with foster Primary School, Dudley at the time of admission. parents) at the time of making the application to the school. A “previously looked after child” is a 5. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 child who immediately moved on from that status below) living in the parish of Sacred Heart and the after becoming subject to an adoption, child Holy Souls,Tipton. arrangement order or special guardianship order. 6. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note 4 note 2 below). For all applicants the definition of a brother or 7. Non-Catholic children who are looked sister is: after or previously looked after (See Note 3 below). • A brother or sister sharing the same parents 8. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Joseph’s • A half-brother or half-sister, where two Catholic Primary School, Dudley at the time of children share one common parent admission. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two 9. Non-Catholic children. children are related by a parents’ marriage or where they are unrelated but their Note 1 parents are living as partners. Children with an Education, Health and Care • Adopted or fostered children (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be admitted. This will reduce the number of places The children must be living permanently in the available to applicants. This is not an same household. oversubscription criteria. Note 5 Note 2 Distances are calculated on the basis of a In all categories, for a child to be considered as straight-line measurement between the child’s Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or home address and the main entrance of the Reception into the Church will be required. For a school. The Local Authority uses a computerised definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the system, which measures all distances in metres. Appendix. Those who face difficulties in Ordnance Survey supplies the co-ordinates that producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or are used to plot a child’s home address and the Reception into the Church should contact their address of the school. Parish Priest. In a very small number of cases, where the Parents making an application for a Catholic child school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible should also complete a Supplementary to decide between the applications of those pupils Information Form (SIF) which should be who are the final qualifiers for a place when returned directly to the school. If you do not applying the published admission criteria. provide the information required in the For example, this may occur when children in the Supplementary Information Form and return it by same year group live at the same address, or if the closing date, together with all supporting the distance between the home and the school is documentation, this is likely to affect the criteria exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If that your child is placed into, which is likely to there is no other way of separating the application affect your child’s chance of being offered a place according to the admissions criteria and to admit at this school. both, or all, of the children would cause the Note 3 Published Admission Number for the child’s year group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in behalf of the Board of Directors, will randomly section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and select the child to be offered the final place. means any child who is (a) in the care of the local 90 | P a g e
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The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit beyond the point at which they reach compulsory twins and all siblings from multiple births where school age and not beyond the first day of the one of the children is the last child ranked within summer term 2022. the school’s published admission number. A child may take up a part-time place until later in The home address is considered to be the child’s the school year, but not beyond the point at which (along with their parents’) genuine principal place the child reached compulsory school age. of residence at the time of the allocation of place, Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. should notify the school, as soon as possible, that If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or school or take up a part-time place. relatives’ address will not be considered for allocation purposes. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls during the summer term who wishes to defer their Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may child’s admission until the beginning of the be required, plus proof of permanent residence at following academic year (when the child will have the property concerned. begun to be of compulsory school age) will If a child moves house after an application has therefore need to make a separate in-year been submitted, then parents must provide application for a place in Year 1 at the school. documentary evidence to confirm this. A change Any reception class place offered following an of address will be considered up to 31st March application made for the 2021/2022 admission 2021. After this date it may not be possible for round will be withdrawn if the child does not take the new address to be considered for allocation up that place by the first day of the summer term purposes. 2022. Where parents have shared responsibility for a Applications for children to be admitted into a child, and the child lives with both parents for part class outside of their normal age group of the week, then the main residence will be Parents have the right to request, but not insist, determined as the address where the child lives that their child be considered for admission to a for the majority of the week. Parents may be class outside of their normal age group. This requested to supply documentary evidence to could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted satisfy the Board of Directors that the child lives and talented, has experienced problems such as at the address put forward by the parents. ill health, or that the child is summer born, ie a If a place in the school is offered on the basis of child born between 1st April and 31st August. an address that is subsequently found to be Parents who wish for their child to be considered different from a child’s normal and permanent for admission to a class outside of their normal home address, then that place is liable to be age group must make an application for the withdrawn. normal age group in the first instance. Parents must then submit a formal request to the Board of School Entry Directors for the child to be considered for a Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is different age group class instead. This request receiving suitable full-time education from the should be in the form of a written letter of beginning of the term following the child’s fifth application outlining the reasons why they wish birthday, when they will have begun to be of for their child to be considered to be admitted into compulsory school age. a class outside of their normal age group and Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil enclosing any supportive evidence and will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time documentation that they wish to be taken into basis in the September following their fourth account as part of that request. birthday. The Board of Directors will consider requests A child’s parents may defer the date at which their submitted for a child to be admitted into a class child, below compulsory school age, is admitted outside of their normal age group and advise to the school, until later in the school year but not parents of the outcome of that request before
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national offer day, having taken into account the Nursery. All applications will be considered information provided by the parents, the child’s against the oversubscription criteria by the Board best interests and the views of the Headteacher. of Directors in the same way regardless of whether the child does or does not attend the If the request is refused, the original application Nursery at the time of application for the normal age group class will progress . through the Local Authority co-ordinated Appeals admissions scheme, be considered by the Board Parents who wish to appeal against the decision of Directors and the parents advised of the of the Board of Directors to refuse their child a outcome. place in the school should make that appeal If the request is agreed and the year group for request in writing to the Board of Directors at the which the parents have requested a place is a school address. Appeals will be heard by an current year group in the school, then the independent panel. application will be considered by the Board of Please note that parents do not have the right to Directors and the parents advised of the appeal if their request for their child to be outcome. admitted to a class outside of their normal year If the request is agreed and the year group for group has been refused, but the Board of which the parents have requested a place is for a Directors have offered a place in the normal age future year group, ie Reception in September group instead. 2022, then the original application is withdrawn Repeat Applications and the parents must submit a fresh application for Reception 2022 when applications open in the Any parent can apply for a place for their child at autumn term of 2021. Please note that parents any time outside of the normal admissions round. only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where Parents do not have the right to a second appeal the Board of Directors agrees to consider an in respect of the same school for the same application for Reception the following year, that academic year unless, in exceptional application is considered alongside all other circumstances, the Board of Directors has applications received and parents will be advised accepted a second application from the parent of the outcome of that application on national because of a significant and material change in offer day. No place is reserved or held for the the circumstances of the parent, child or school, child in advance. but have still refused admission. If parents are considering submitting an Late Applications application for their child to be admitted into a Late applications will be dealt with in accordance class outside of their normal age group, it is with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated strongly recommended that they also read the admissions scheme. This states that applications DFE guidance which can be found at: that are received after the closing date deadline www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer- of 15th January 2021 will only be considered after born-children-school-admission. applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, Applications From children currently however, be exceptional circumstances in which attending St Joseph’s Catholic Primary a late application will be considered alongside School Nursery those applications that were made within the Attendance at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary deadline. Where the exceptional circumstances School’s Nursery does not automatically are such that the parent could not have guarantee that a place will be offered in the reasonably submitted the application within the Reception class of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary deadline, it will be considered along with all other School, Dudley. Parents must apply for a applicants. In each circumstance, supporting Reception place in exactly the same way as documentary evidence must be provided by the parents of children not attending the parent at the time of application.
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You are encouraged to ensure that your empowered to give absolute priority to a child application is received on time. where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this Change in Preference power, even when admitting the child would Once parents have submitted their preference, mean exceeding the published admission they will not be allowed to change them without number subject to the infant class size an exceptional change in their circumstances, for exceptions. example, if the family has recently moved Applications other than the normal intake to address or an older sibling has changed schools. reception class (in-year admissions) All requests to change preferences should be made in writing to the Local Authority to whom the An application can be made for a place for a child parents submitted the original application. Where at any time outside the normal admission round a change of preference is submitted for an and the child will be admitted where there are oversubscribed school, without an exceptional places available. Applications should be made by change in circumstances, then the application will contacting Dudley local authority’s School be refused. Admissions Team 0300 555 2345 who will liaise with the school’s Academy Committee. Where Waiting List there are places available but more applications In addition to their right to appeal, children who than places, the published oversubscription have not been offered a place at St Joseph’s criteria, as set out for the normal round of Catholic Primary School, Dudley can request that admissions, will be applied. their name be added to a waiting list. The waiting If there are no places available, the child will be list will be maintained until the last day of the added to the waiting list (see above). summer term 2022 and will then be discarded. Parents will be advised of the outcome of their A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. application in writing and, where the Board of When a new child joins the waiting list, all Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to have the right to appeal to an independent appeal ensure that the list is always maintained in panel. oversubscription criteria order. This means that a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or There is no charge or cost related to the down during the time that it is on the list. Any late admission of a child to this school. applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting list. In Year Fair Access Protocol The Board of Directors of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Dudley is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is
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The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school St Joseph’s Catholic was founded by the Catholic Church to provide Primary School, education for children of Catholic families. Whenever there are more applications than Stourbridge places available, priority will be given to Catholic Published Admission Number: 30 children in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its Board of Directors as part of the Catholic St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is part of the Church in accordance with its Articles of St Nicholas Owen Catholic Multi Academy Association and seeks at all times to be a Company. The admissions authority for the witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. school is the Board of Directors of the St Nicholas Owen Catholic Multi Academy Company who has responsibility for admissions to this school. The As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Board of Directors has delegated responsibility Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic for the administration of the admissions process school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate to the Academy Committee of St Joseph’s every aspect of the school’s activity. It is Catholic Primary School essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. We therefore hope that all The admissions process for St Joseph’s Catholic parents will give their full, unreserved and Primary School is part of the Dudley Local positive support for the aims and ethos of the Authority co-ordinated admissions scheme. To school. This does not affect the right of an apply for a place at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary applicant who is not Catholic to apply for and be School in the normal admissions round, an admitted to a place at the school in accordance application must be made using the school with the admission arrangements. admission application process of the local authority in which you live naming St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School on the application form. The Board of Directors has set its admission Applications need to be made by 15th January number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the 2021. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) Reception class in the school year which begins must also be completed and returned directly to in September 2021. (See Note 1 below) the school by the same date (see Note 2). Where there are more applications for places All applications which are submitted on time will than the number of places available, places will be considered at the same time, after the closing be offered according to the following order of date. No priority is given to preference ranking. priority. If there is oversubscription within a category, the Board of Directors will give priority to children living closest to the school If the application is submitted using the online determined by the shortest distance (see Note electronic system you will be advised of the 5). outcome of your application on 16th April 2021, or the next working day, by the local authority on behalf of the school. If you do not apply online, For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries the local authority will post a letter advising you of are as shown on the Archdiocese of Birmingham the school that your child has been offered by parish boundary map which can be accessed at second class post on 16th April 2021, or on the www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-map/ next working day. and will be applied to the admission arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022. Please note that throughout this policy, the term parent means all natural parents, any person Oversubscription Criteria who is not a parent but has parental responsibility for a child and any person who has 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 care of a child. below) who are looked after or previously looked after (See Note 3 below). 94 | P a g e
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2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 that your child is placed into, which is likely to below) living in the parish of Our Lady and affect your child’s chance of being offered a place All Saints who have a brother or sister (see at this school. Note 4 below) attending St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School at the time of Note 3 admission. A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 below) living in the parish of Our Lady and means any child who is (a) in the care of the local authority or (b) being provided with All Saints. accommodation by them in the exercise of their 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see Note social services functions (eg children with foster 2 below) who have a brother or sister (see parents) at the time of making the application to Note 4 below) attending St Joseph’s the school. A “previously looked after child” is a Catholic Primary School at the time of child who immediately moved on from that status admission. after becoming subject to an adoption, child 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see note arrangement order or special guardianship order. 2 below). Note 4 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked after For all applicants the definition of a brother or or previously looked after (See Note 3 sister is: below). • A brother or sister sharing the same parents 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or sister (see Note 4 below) attending St • A half-brother or half-sister, where two Joseph’s Catholic Primary School at the children share one common parent time of admission. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two 8. Non-Catholic children. children are related by a parents’ marriage or where they are unrelated but their parents Note 1 are living as partners. Children with an Education, Health and Care • Adopted or fostered children (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be admitted. This will reduce the number of places The children must be living permanently in the available to applicants. This is not an same household. oversubscription criteria. Note 5 Note 2 Distances are calculated on the basis of a In all categories, for a child to be considered as straight-line measurement between the child’s Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or home address and the main entrance of the Reception into the Church will be required. For a school. The Local Authority uses a computerised definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the system, which measures all distances in metres. Appendix. Those who face difficulties in Ordnance Survey supplies the co-ordinates that producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or are used to plot a child’s home address and the Reception into the Church should contact their address of the school. Parish Priest. In a very small number of cases, where the Parents making an application for a Catholic child school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible should also complete a Supplementary to decide between the applications of those pupils Information Form (SIF) which should be who are the final qualifiers for a place when returned directly to the school. If you do not applying the published admission criteria. provide the information required in the For example, this may occur when children in the Supplementary Information Form and return it by same year group live at the same address, or if the closing date, together with all supporting the distance between the home and the school is documentation, this is likely to affect the criteria exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If 95 | P a g e
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there is no other way of separating the application Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil according to the admissions criteria and to admit will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time both, or all, of the children would cause the basis in the September following their fourth Published Admission Number for the child’s year birthday. group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on A child’s parents may defer the date at which their behalf of the Board of Directors, will randomly child, below compulsory school age, is admitted select the child to be offered the final place. to the school, until later in the school year but not The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit beyond the point at which they reach compulsory twins and all siblings from multiple births where school age and not beyond the first day of the one of the children is the last child ranked within summer term 2022. the school’s published admission number. A child may take up a part-time place until later in The home address is considered to be the child’s the school year, but not beyond the point at which (along with their parents’) genuine principal place the child reached compulsory school age. of residence at the time of the allocation of place, Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent should i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. notify the school, as soon as possible, that they If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for wish to either defer their child’s entry to the school reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or or take up a part-time place. relatives’ address will not be considered for allocation purposes. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls during the summer term who wishes to defer Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may their child’s admission until the beginning of the be required, plus proof of permanent residence at following academic year (when the child will the property concerned. have begun to be of compulsory school age) If a child moves house after an application has will therefore need to make a separate in-year been submitted, then parents must provide application for a place in Year 1 at the school. documentary evidence to confirm this. A change Any reception class place offered following an of address will be considered up to 31st March application made for the 2021/2022 admission 2021. After this date it may not be possible for round will be withdrawn if the child does not take the new address to be considered for allocation up that place by the first day of the summer term purposes. 2022. Where parents have shared responsibility for a Applications for children to be admitted child, and the child lives with both parents for part into a class outside of their normal age of the week, then the main residence will be group determined as the address where the child lives for the majority of the week. Parents may be Parents have the right to request, but not insist, requested to supply documentary evidence to that their child be considered for admission to satisfy the Board of Directors that the child lives a class outside of their normal age group. This at the address put forward by the parents. could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted and talented, has experienced problems If a place in the school is offered on the basis of such as ill health, or that the child is summer an address that is subsequently found to be born, ie a child born between 1st April and 31st different from a child’s normal and permanent August. Parents who wish for their child to be home address, then that place is liable to be considered for admission to a class outside of withdrawn. their normal age group must make an SCHOOL ENTRY application for the normal age group in the first instance. Parents must then submit a formal Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is request to the Board of Directors for the child to receiving suitable full-time education from the be considered for a different age group class beginning of the term following the child’s fifth instead. This request should be in the form of a birthday, when they will have begun to be of written letter of application outlining the compulsory school age. reasons why they wish for their child to be
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considered to be admitted into a class outside Parents who wish to appeal against the of their normal age group and enclosing any decision of the Board of Directors to refuse their supportive evidence and documentation that child a place in the school should make that they wish to be taken into account as part of appeal request in writing to the Board of that request. Directors at the school address. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. The Board of Directors will consider requests submitted for a child to be admitted into a class Please note that parents do not have the right outside of their normal age group and advise to appeal if their request for their child to be parents of the outcome of that request before admitted to a class outside of their normal year national offer day, having taken into account group has been refused, but the Board of the information provided by the parents, the Directors have offered a place in the normal child’s best interests and the views of the Head age group instead. Teacher. Repeat Applications If the request is refused, the original application for the normal age group class will progress Any parent can apply for a place for their child at any time outside of the normal admissions through the Local Authority co-ordinated round. Parents do not have the right to a admissions scheme, be considered by the second appeal in respect of the same school Board of Directors and the parents advised of for the same academic year unless, in the outcome. exceptional circumstances, the Board of If the request is agreed and the year group for Directors has accepted a second application which the parents have requested a place is a from the parent because of a significant and current year group in the school, then the material change in the circumstances of the application will be considered by the Board of parent, child or school, but have still refused Directors and the parents advised of the admission. outcome. Late Applications If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is for Late applications will be dealt with in a future year group, ie Reception in September accordance with the Local Authority’s co- 2022, then the original application is withdrawn ordinated admissions scheme. This states that and the parents must submit a fresh application applications that are received after the closing th for Reception 2022 when applications open in date deadline of 15 January 2021 will only be the autumn term of 2021. Please note that considered after applications that were parents only have the right to re-apply for a received within the deadline have been dealt place. Where the Board of Directors agrees to with. There will, however, be exceptional consider an application for Reception the circumstances in which a late application will be following year, that application is considered considered alongside those applications that alongside all other applications received and were made within the deadline. Where the parents will be advised of the outcome of that exceptional circumstances are such that the application on national offer day. No place is parent could not have reasonably submitted the reserved or held for the child in advance. application within the deadline, it will be considered along with all other applicants. In If parents are considering submitting an each circumstance, supporting documentary application for their child to be admitted into a evidence must be provided by the parent at the class outside of their normal age group, it is time of application. strongly recommended that they also read the DFE guidance which can be found at: You are encouraged to ensure that your application is received on time. www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer -born-children-school-admission. Change in Preference Appeals Once parents have submitted their preference, they will not be allowed to change them without
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an exceptional change in their circumstances, for Applications other than the normal intake example, if the family has recently moved to reception class (in-year admissions) address or an older sibling has changed schools. All requests to change preferences should be An application can be made for a place for a child made in writing to the Local Authority to whom at any time outside the normal admission round the parents submitted the original application. and the child will be admitted where there are Where a change of preference is submitted for places available. Applications should be made by an oversubscribed school, without an contacting Dudley local authority’s School exceptional change in circumstances, then the Admissions Team 0300 555 2345 who will liaise application will be refused. with the school’s Academy Committee. Where there are places available but more applications Waiting List than places, the published oversubscription In addition to their right to appeal, children who criteria, as set out for the normal round of have not been offered a place at St Joseph’s admissions, will be applied. Catholic Primary School can request that their If there are no places available, the child will be name be added to a waiting list. The waiting list added to the waiting list (see above). will be maintained until the last day of the Parents will be advised of the outcome of their summer term 2022 and will then be discarded. application in writing and, where the Board of A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, When a new child joins the waiting list, all have the right to appeal to an independent appeal applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to panel. ensure that the list is always maintained in There is no charge or cost related to the oversubscription criteria order. This means that admission of a child to this school. a child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting list. IN YEAR FAIR ACCESS PROTOCOL The Board of Directors of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. Accordingly, outside the normal admission round the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is requested under any locally agreed protocol. The Board of Directors has this power, even when admitting the child would mean exceeding the published admission number subject to the infant class size exceptions.
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places available, priority will be given to Catholic St Mary’s Catholic Primary children in accordance with the oversubscription School criteria listed below. The school is conducted by its Board of Directors as part of the Catholic Church in accordance with its Articles of Published Admission Number: 30 Association and seeks at all times to be a witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ. St Mary’s Catholic Primary School is part of the St Nicholas Owen Multi-Academy Company. The As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic admissions authority for the school is the Board education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, of Directors of the St Nicholas Owen Multi- Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every Academy Company who has responsibility for aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that admissions to this school. The Board of Directors the Catholic character of the school’s education has delegated responsibility for the be fully supported by all families in the school. We administration of the admissions process to the therefore hope that all parents will give their full, Academy Committee of St Mary’s Catholic unreserved and positive support for the aims and Primary School. ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for The admissions process for St Mary’s Catholic and be admitted to a place at the school in Primary School is part of the Dudley Local accordance with the admission arrangements. Authority co- ordinated admissions scheme. To apply for a place at St Mary’s Catholic Primary The Board of Directors has set its admission School in the normal admissions round, an number at 30 pupils to be admitted to the application must be made using the school Reception class in the school year which begins admission application process of the local in September 2021. (See Note 1 below). authority in which you live naming St Mary’s Where there are more applications for places Catholic Primary School on the application form. than the number of places available, places will Applications need to be made by 15th January be offered according to the following order of 2021. A Supplementary Information Form (SIF) priority. If there is oversubscription within a must also be completed and returned directly to category, the Board of the school by the same date (see Note 2). Directors will give priority to children living closest All applications which are submitted on time will to the school determined by the shortest distance be considered at the same time, after the closing (see Note 5). date. No priority is given to preference ranking. For the purposes of this policy, parish boundaries If the application is submitted using the online are as shown on the Archdiocese of Birmingham electronic system you will be advised of the parish boundary map which can be accessed at outcome of your application on 16th April 2021, www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/parish-map/ or the next working day, by the local authority on and will be applied to the admission behalf of the school. If you do not apply online, arrangements for the academic year 2020/2021. the local authority will post a letter advising you of The parish boundary maps for Brierley Hill and the school that your child has been offered by Kingswinford are available to view on our school second class post on 16th April 2021, or on the website at www.st-mary- bh.dudley.sch.uk. next working day. Oversubscription Criteria Please note that throughout this policy, the term parent means all natural parents, any person who 1. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 is not a parent but has parental responsibility for below) who are looked after or previously looked a child and any person who has care of a child. after (See Note 3 below). The ethos of this school is Catholic. The school 2. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 was founded by the Catholic Church to provide below) living in the parish of St Mary’s, Brierley education for children of Catholic families. Hill or Our Lady of Lourdes, Kingswinford who Whenever there are more applications than have a brother or sister (see Note 4 below)
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attending St Mary’s Catholic Primary School at means any child who is (a) in the care of the local the time of admission. authority or (b) being provided with accommodation by them in the exercise of their 3. Baptised Catholic children (see Note 2 social services functions (e.g..children with foster below) living in the parish of St Mary’s, Brierley parents) at the time of making the application to Hill or Our Lady of Lourdes, Kingswinford. the school. A “previously looked after child” is a 4. Other Baptised Catholic children (see child who immediately moved on from that status Note 2 below) who have a brother or sister (see after becoming subject to an adoption, child Note 4 below) attending St Mary’s Catholic arrangement order or special guardianship order. Primary School at the time of admission. Note 4 5. Other Baptised Catholic children (see For all applicants the definition of a brother or note 2 below). sister is: 6. Non-Catholic children who are looked • A brother or sister sharing the same after or previously looked after (See Note 3 parents below). • A half-brother or half-sister, where two 7. Non-Catholic children who have a brother children share one common parent or sister (see Note 4 below) attending St Mary’s Catholic Primary School at the time of admission. • A step-brother or step-sister, where two children are related by a parents’ marriage 8. Non-Catholic children. or where they are unrelated but their Note 1 parents are living as partners. Children with an Education, Health and Care • Adopted or fostered children (EHC) Plan that names the school MUST be The children must be living permanently in the admitted. This will reduce the number of places same household. available to applicants. This is not an oversubscription criteria. Note 5 Note 2 Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between the child’s In all categories, for a child to be considered as home address and the main entrance of the Catholic, evidence of Catholic Baptism or school. The Local Authority uses a computerised Reception into the Church will be required. For a system, which measures all distances in metres. definition of a Baptised Catholic, see the Ordnance Survey supplies the co-ordinates that Appendix. Those who face difficulties in are used to plot a child’s home address and the producing written evidence of Catholic Baptism or address of the school. Reception into the Church should contact their Parish Priest. In a very small number of cases, where the school is oversubscribed, it may not be possible Parents making an application for a Catholic child to decide between the applications of those pupils should also complete a Supplementary who are the final qualifiers for a place when Information Form (SIF) which should be returned applying the published admission criteria. directly to the school. If you do not provide the information required in the Supplementary For example, this may occur when children in the Information Form and return it by the closing date, same year group live at the same address, or if together with all supporting documentation, this is the distance between the home and the school is likely to affect the criteria that your child is placed exactly the same, for example, blocks of flats. If into, which is likely to affect your child’s chance of there is no other way of separating the application being offered a place at this school. according to the admissions criteria and to admit both, or all, of the children would cause the Note 3 Published Admission Number for the child’s year A “looked after child” has the same meaning as in group to be exceeded, the Local Authority, on Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989, and
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behalf of the Board of Directors, will randomly A child’s parents may defer the date at which their select the child to be offered the final place. child, below compulsory school age, is admitted to the school, until later in the school year but not The Board of Directors will, where possible, admit beyond the point at which they reach compulsory twins and all siblings from multiple births where school age and not beyond the first day of the one of the children is the last child ranked within summer term 2022. the school’s published admission number. A child may take up a part-time place until later in The home address is considered to be the child’s the school year, but not beyond the point at which (along with their parents’) genuine principal place the child reached compulsory school age. of residence at the time of the allocation of place, i.e. where they are normally and regularly living. Upon receipt of the offer of a place a parent If a child is resident with friends or relatives (for should notify the school, as soon as possible, that reasons other than guardianship), the friends’ or they wish to either defer their child’s entry to the relatives’ address will not be considered for school or take up a part-time place. allocation purposes. The parent of a child whose fifth birthday falls Evidence of ownership or rental agreement may during the summer term who wishes to defer their be required, plus proof of permanent residence at child’s admission until the beginning of the the property concerned. following academic year (when the child will have begun to be of compulsory school age) will If a child moves house after an application has therefore need to make a separate in-year been submitted, then parents must provide application for a place in Year 1 at the school. Any documentary evidence to confirm this. A change reception class place offered following an of address will be considered up to 31st March application made for the 2021/2022 admission 2021. After this date it may not be possible for the round will be withdrawn if the child does not take new address to be considered for allocation up that place by the first day of the summer term purposes. 2022. Where parents have shared responsibility for a child, and the child lives with both parents for part of the week, then the main residence will be APPLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN TO BE determined as the address where the child lives ADMITTED INTO A CLASS OUTSIDE OF for the majority of the week. Parents may be THEIR NORMAL AGE GROUP requested to supply documentary evidence to Parents have the right to request, but not insist, satisfy the Board of Directors that the child lives that their child be considered for admission to a at the address put forward by the parents. class outside of their normal age group. This If a place in the school is offered on the basis of could be the case, for example, if a child is gifted an address that is subsequently found to be and talented, has experienced problems such as different from a child’s normal and permanent ill health, or that the child is summer born, i.e. a home address, then that place is liable to be child born between 1st April and 31st August. withdrawn. Parents who wish for their child to be considered for admission to a class outside of their normal SCHOOL ENTRY age group must make an application for the Parents must, by law, ensure that their child is normal age group in the first instance. Parents receiving suitable full-time education from the must then submit a formal request to the Board of beginning of the term following the child’s fifth Directors for the child to be considered for a birthday, when they will have begun to be of different age group class instead. This request compulsory school age. should be in the form of a written letter of Where a place is offered in the school, the pupil application outlining the reasons why they wish will be entitled to take up that place, on a full-time for their child to be considered to be admitted into basis in the September following their fourth a class outside of their normal age group and birthday. enclosing any supportive evidence and
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documentation that they wish to be taken into guarantee that a place will be offered in the account as part of that request. Reception class of St Mary’s Catholic Primary School. Parents must apply for a Reception place The Board of Directors will consider requests in exactly the same way as parents of children not submitted for a child to be admitted into a class attending the Pre-school. All applications will be outside of their normal age group and advise considered against the oversubscription criteria parents of the outcome of that request before by the Board of Directors in the same way national offer day, having taken into account the regardless of whether the child does or does not information provided by the parents, the child’s attend the Pre-school at the time of application. best interests and the views of the Head Teacher. Appeals If the request is refused, the original application for the normal age group class will progress Parents who wish to appeal against the decision through the Local Authority co-ordinated of the Board of Directors to refuse their child a admissions scheme, be considered by the Board place in the school should make that appeal of Directors and the parents advised of the request in writing to the Board of Directors at the outcome. school address. Appeals will be heard by an independent panel. If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is a Please note that parents do not have the right to current year group in the school, then the appeal if their request for their child to be application will be considered by the Board of admitted to a class outside of their normal year Directors and the parents advised of the group has been refused, but the Board of outcome. Directors have offered a place in the normal age group instead. If the request is agreed and the year group for which the parents have requested a place is for a Repeat Applications future year group, ie. Reception in September Any parent can apply for a place for their child at 2022, then the original application is withdrawn any time outside of the normal admissions round. and the parents must submit a fresh application Parents do not have the right to a second appeal for Reception 2022 when applications open in the in respect of the same school for the same autumn term of 2021. Please note that parents academic year unless, in exceptional only have the right to re-apply for a place. Where circumstances, the Board of Directors has the Board of Directors agrees to consider an accepted a second application from the parent application for Reception the following year, that because of a significant and material change in application is considered alongside all other the circumstances of the parent, child or school, applications received and parents will be advised but have still refused admission. of the outcome of that application on national offer day. No place is reserved or held for the Late Applications child in advance. Late applications will be dealt with in accordance If parents are considering submitting an with the Local Authority’s co-ordinated application for their child to be admitted into a admissions scheme. This states that applications class outside of their normal age group, it is that are received after the closing date deadline strongly recommended that they also read the of 15th January 2021 will only be considered after DFE guidance which can be found at: applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, www.gov.uk/government/publications/summer- however, be exceptional circumstances in which born-children-school-admission a late application will be considered alongside Applications from children currently those applications that were made within the attending St Mary’s Catholic Primary School’s deadline. Where the exceptional circumstances Pre-School are such that the parent could not have reasonably submitted the application within the Attendance at St Mary’s Catholic Primary deadline, it will be considered along with all other School’s Pre-school does not automatically applicants. In each circumstance, supporting
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documentary evidence must be provided by the Accordingly, outside the normal admission round parent at the time of application. the Board of Directors is empowered to give absolute priority to a child where admission is You are encouraged to ensure that your requested under any locally agreed protocol. The application is received on time. Board of Directors has this power, even when Change in preference admitting the child would mean exceeding the Once parents have submitted their preference, published admission number subject to the infant they will not be allowed to change them without class size exceptions. an exceptional change in their circumstances, for Applications other than the normal intake to example, if the family has recently moved reception class (in-year admissions) address or an older sibling has changed schools. An application can be made for a place for a child All requests to change preferences should be at any time outside the normal admission round made in writing to the Local Authority to whom the and the child will be admitted where there are parents submitted the original application. Where places available. Applications should be made to a change of preference is submitted for an the school by contacting the school office on oversubscribed school, without an exceptional 01384 818435 and all families approaching the change in circumstances, then the application will school will be given an application form. Where be refused. there are places available but more applications Waiting List than places, the published oversubscription In addition to their right to appeal, children who criteria, as set out for the normal round of have not been offered a place at St Mary’s admissions, will be applied. Catholic Primary School can request that their If there are no places available, the child will be name be added to a waiting list. The waiting list added to the waiting list (see above). will be maintained until the last day of the summer Parents will be advised of the outcome of their term 2022 and will then be discarded. application in writing and, where the Board of A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed. Director’s decision is to refuse their child a place, When a new child joins the waiting list, all have the right to appeal to an independent appeal applicants on that waiting list will be re-ranked to panel. ensure that the list is always maintained in There is no charge or cost related to the oversubscription criteria order. This means that a admission of a child to this school. child’s position on the waiting list could go up or down during the time that it is on the list. Any late applications accepted will be added to the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Inclusion on the waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available. It may be that those already offered places may accept them, thereby filling all available places. Children who are the subject of a direction by the Local Authority to admit or who are allocated to a school in accordance with the Fair Access Protocol take precedence over those on a waiting list. In Year Fair Access Protocol The Board of Directors of St Mary’s Catholic Primary School is committed to taking its fair share of children who are vulnerable and/or hard to place, as set out in locally agreed protocols. 103 | P a g e
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filled according to those children who live closest Tenterfields Primary to the school, determined by a straight-line School measurement in metres, from the home address to the main entrance of the school.
Notes Published Admission Number: 30 • Relevant looked after children means Children will not be discriminated against as laid children who are looked after by a local authority down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The in accordance with Section 22 (1) of the Children Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Authority, or (b) being provided with Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special accommodation by a Local Authority in the Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination exercise of their social services functions. Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. • An adoption order is an order under All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be Section 46 of the Adoptions and Children Act assessed against the following criteria to allocate 2002. A Child Arrangement Order settles the the available places where more applications are arrangements to be made as to the person with received than can be accommodated. whom the child is to live under section 8 of the a) First priority for admission shall be given Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the Children to relevant looked after children or children who Act 1989 defines a special guardianship order as were previously looked after but immediately an order appointing one or more individuals to be after being looked after became subject to an a child’s special guardian (or special guardians). adoption, child arrangement order or special • In accordance with legislation, a child with guardianship order. See notes below. an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be b) Second priority for admission shall be offered a place if the school is named in the given to children with a “serious and ongoing EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the child’s medical condition” Tenterfields Primary Academy individual needs, this may reduce the amount of is the most appropriate school to meet the places available for children who do not have an condition. EHCP. (Parents must provide supportive information • Definition of brother or sister also relates from their child’s Hospital Consultant at the time to adopted or fostered children living at the same of application in order to be considered under this home address. criteria. This supportive information should • The home address is considered to be the include information about the needs of the child child’s (along with their parents’) genuine and should detail the difficulties the child would principal place of residence at the time of the experience if they attended another school. allocation of places i.e. where they are normally Parents should also indicate why Tenterfields and regularly living. If a child is resident with Primary Academy is the most appropriate to meet friends or relatives (for reasons other than their child’s medical condition rather than any guardianship), the friends or relatives address will other school. The Governing Body will not seek not be considered for allocation purposes. to obtain medical evidence on behalf of parents.) • Where parents have shared responsibility c) Third priority for admission shall be given for a child, and the child lives with both parents to children who have a brother/sister, half- for part of the school week, then the home brother/sister (where the children share one address will be determined as the address where common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, the child lives for the majority of the school week. living at the same address and who will still be Parents will be required to provide documentary attending Tenterfields Primary Academy in the evidence to support the address they wish to be academic year 2021/2022. considered for allocation purposes. At least one d) Any places that remain available once the item of proof must demonstrate where the child above applicants have been admitted, will be lives. It is expected that parents will agree on
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school places before an application is made, and made by The Trust who will take into account the it may be necessary to request evidence from you circumstances of the case. to confirm that this is the case. The School is not Parents do not have the right to insist that their in a position to intervene in disputes between child is admitted to a particular year group. parents over school applications and will request that these are resolved privately. Late Applications • Special conditions will apply in the event Preferences that are received after the closing that one child from a set of twins or triplets does date for receipt of applications will only be not gain admission to the preferred school considered after applications that were received through the admissions criteria. The Governing within the deadline have been dealt with. Body will exceed the admission number prevent There will, however, be exceptional separation of twins / triplets. circumstances in which a late application will be • Random allocation will be used as a tie- considered alongside those applications that break in category d above to decide who has the were made within the deadline. highest priority for admission if the distance In each circumstance supportive documentary between two children’s homes and the school is evidence must be provided by the parent / carer the same. at the time of application. Deferred Entry to Reception Class Waiting Lists Parents have the right to retain a place offered If the school is oversubscribed and children have and request that their child be admitted to been refused admission because other children Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 have a higher priority for admission under the academic year or until the term in which the child published admissions criteria, then those reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if Parents can also request that their child takes up they wish to be placed on a waiting list. the place part-time until the child reaches compulsory school age. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions Admission of children outside of their normal age criteria and the list will operate from the point of group. allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this Parents may seek a place for their child outside point the waiting list will no longer be in operation of their normal age group, for example, if the child and places that become available will be is gifted and talented or has experienced allocated on a first come first served basis. If problems such as ill health. Parents should make more than one application is received at the same their application to The Trust setting out the time the oversubscription criteria, as detailed reasons why they believe their child should be above, will be used to determine which applicant taught outside of their chronological age group. will have the place. In addition, the parents of summer born children A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and may choose not to send that child to school until is subject to change during the year i.e. they can the September following their fifth birthday and go up or down the list. may request that they are admitted out of their Places that become available between the point normal age group – to reception rather than year of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered 1. These parents will need to make an to children according to their ranking on this list application alongside children applying at the i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. normal age which should explain why it is in the child’s best interest to be admitted outside of their normal age which should include information Repeat Applications such as professional evidence as to why this is the case and why an exception should be made It is not the Governing Body’s Policy to consider in the case of the child. A decision as to whether repeat applications in the same academic year this is an appropriate course of action will be
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unless there have been significant and material changes in the circumstances of the applicant. Woodside Primary School Appeals If you are not offered a place at the school, you Published Admission Number: 60 have the right to appeal to an independent panel. Woodside Primary School has an Inclusive The Local Authority will administer this process Education Policy which aims to maximise the on behalf of The Trust and the relevant form and opportunity to meet parental preference and to guidance notes can be obtained from The School meet the individual needs of children wherever Admissions Service. possible. Woodside Primary School does not support the use of selective admissions policies based on aptitude or academic achievement. The admission arrangements set by the Trust ensures that the process if fair and equitable for all. Legal Context: • School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as amended by the Education Act 2002 • The Education (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (Primary Schools) (England)(Amendment) Regulations 2012 • The Education (Admission of Looked After Children) (England)Regulations 2005 • School Admissions Code 2014 Children will not be discriminated against as laid down by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relations Act 1976 as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and The Equality Act 2010. All preferences, regardless of ranking, will be assessed against the following criteria to allocate the available places where more applications are received than can be accommodated. a) First priority for admission shall be given to relevant looked after children or children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order or special guardianship order. See notes below. b) Second priority for admission shall be given to children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances:
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1. Where the member of staff has been • Any child not obtaining a place will be advised employed at the school for two or more about the independent appeals process. years at the time at which the application • Definition of brother or sister also relates to for admission to the school is made, adopted or fostered children living at the same and/or home address. 2. The member of staff is recruited to fill a • The home address is considered to be the vacant post for which there is a child’s (along with their parents’) genuine demonstrable skills shortage principal place of residence at the time of the c) Third priority for admission shall be given to allocation of places i.e. where they are children who have a brother/sister, half- normally and regularly living. If a child is brother/sister (where the children share one resident with friends or relatives (for reasons common parent), or step-brother/step-sister, other than guardianship), the friends or living at the same address and who will still relatives address will not be considered for be attending Woodside Primary School in the allocation purposes. academic year 2021/2022. • Where parents have shared responsibility for d) Any places that remain available once the a child, and the child lives with both parents for above applicants have been admitted, will be part of the school week, then the home filled according to those children who live address will be determined as the address closest to the school, determined by a where the child lives for the majority of the straight-line measurement in metres, from school week. Parents will be required to the home address to the main entrance of the provide documentary evidence to support the school. address they wish to be considered for allocation purposes. At least one item of proof Notes must demonstrate where the child lives. It is • Relevant looked after children means children expected that parents will agree on school who are looked after by a local authority in places before an application is made, and it accordance with section 22 (1) of the Children may be necessary to request evidence from Act 1989 and who is (a) in care of a Local you to confirm that this is the case. The School Authority, or (b) being provided with is not in a position to intervene in disputes accommodation by a Local Authority in the between parents over school applications and exercise of their social services functions. will request that these are resolved privately. • An adoption order is an order under section 46 • Special conditions will apply in the event that of the Adoptions and Children Act 2002. A one child from a set of twins or triplets does Child Arrangement Order settles the not gain admission to the preferred school arrangements to be made as to the person through the admissions criteria. The with whom the child is to live under section 8 Governing Body will exceed the admission of the Children Act 1989. Section 14A of the number prevent separation of twins / triplets. Children Act 1989 defines a special • Random allocation will be used as a tie-break guardianship order as an order appointing one in category d above to decide who has the or more individuals to be a child’s special highest priority for admission if the distance guardian (or special guardians). between two children’s homes and the school • In accordance with legislation, a child with an is the same. Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) will be Deferred Entry to Reception Class offered a place if the school is named in the EHCP as the most appropriate to meet the Parents have the right to retain a place offered child’s individual needs, this may reduce the and request that their child be admitted to amount of places available for children who do Reception Class later during the 2021/2022 not have an EHCP. academic year or until the term in which the child reaches compulsory school age, if they so wish. Parents can also request that their child takes up
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the place part-time until the child reaches applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if compulsory school age. they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Admission of children outside of their normal Children on the waiting list will be ranked in age group. accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of Parents may seek a place for their child outside allocation until the 31st August 2022. After this of their normal age group, for example, if the child point the waiting list will no longer be in operation is gifted and talented or has experienced and places that become available will be problems such as ill health. Parents should make allocated on a first come first served basis. If their application to The Trust setting out the more than one application is received at the same reasons why they believe their child should be time the oversubscription criteria, as detailed taught outside of their chronological age group. above, will be used to determine which applicant In addition, the parents of summer born children will have the place. may choose not to send that child to school until Inclusion the waiting list does not mean that a the September following their fifth birthday and place will eventually become available. may request that they are admitted out of their normal age group – to reception rather than year A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and 1. is subject to change during the year i.e. they can go up or down the list. These parents will need to make an application alongside children applying at the normal age Places that become available between the point which should explain why it is in the child’s best of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered interest to be admitted outside of their normal age to children according to their ranking on this list which should include information such as i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first. professional evidence as to why this is the case Repeat Applications and why an exception should be made in the case of the child. A decision as to whether this is an It is not the Trust’s Policy to consider repeat appropriate course of action will be made by The applications in the same academic year unless Trust who will take into account the there have been significant and material changes circumstances of the case. Parents do not have in the circumstances of the applicant. the right to insist that their child is admitted to a particular year group. Late Applications Preferences that are received after the closing date for receipt of applications will only be considered after applications that were received within the deadline have been dealt with. There will, however, be exceptional circumstances in which a late application will be considered alongside those applications that were made within the deadline. In each circumstance supportive documentary evidence must be provided by the parent / carer at the time of application. Waiting Lists If the school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, then those
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DEFINITION OF A “BAPTISED CATHOLIC”
A “Baptised Catholic” is one who: • Has been baptised into full communion (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 837) with the Catholic Church by the Rites of Baptism of one of the various ritual Churches in communion with the See of Rome. Written evidence of this baptism can be obtained by recourse to the Baptismal Registers of the church in which the baptism took place (Cf. Code of Canon Law, 877 & 878). Or • Has been validly baptised in a separated ecclesial community and subsequently received into full communion with the Catholic Church by the Rite of Reception of Baptised Christians into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church. Written evidence of their baptism and reception into full communion with the Catholic Church can be obtained by recourse to the Register of Receptions, or in some cases, a sub-section of the Baptismal Registers of the church in which the Rite of Reception took place (Cf. Rite of Christian Initiation, 399).
WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF BAPTISM The Governing bodies of Catholic schools and Boards of Directors of Catholic Academies will require written evidence in the form of a Certificate of Baptism or Certificate of Reception before applications for school places can be considered for categories of “Baptised Catholics”. A Certificate of Baptism or Reception is to include: the full name, date of birth, date of Baptism or Reception, and parent(s) name(s). The certificate must also show that it is copied from the records kept by the place of Baptism or Reception. Those who would have difficulty obtaining written evidence of Catholic Baptism/Reception for a good reason, may still be considered as Baptised Catholics but only after they have been referred to their parish priest who, after consulting the Vicar General, will decide how the question of Baptism/Reception is to be resolved and how written evidence is to be produced in accordance with the law of the Church. Those who would be considered to have good reason for not obtaining written evidence would include those who cannot contact the place of Baptism/Reception due to persecution or fear, the destruction of the church and the original records, or where Baptism/Reception was administered validly but not in the Parish church where records are kept. Governors and Boards of Directors may request extra supporting evidence when the written documents that are produced do not clarify the fact that a person was baptised or received into the Catholic Church, (i.e. where the name and address of the Church is not on the certificate or where the name of the Church does not state whether it is a Catholic Church or not.)
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What are my rights if my application is unsuccessful
General If your child is refused admission to any school, you have a right of appeal to an independent appeals panel. Please note that you may lodge appeals for admission to as many schools as you wish, providing you have made a preference for the school. Being offered a place at an alternative school will not affect the outcome of your appeal.
What happens if places become available between the point of allocation and the start of term? Places will be allocated from the waiting list. Please see further details over the page.
Appeals for community and voluntary controlled schools If you choose to exercise your right of appeal, arrangements will be made for you to attend the appeal hearing. Please note that the decision of the independent appeals panel is binding on both parties and it is not the Council’s policy to consider repeat appeals in the same academic year unless there has been a significant material change in circumstances.
Appeals for academies, foundation and voluntary aided schools If you are refused admission to an academy, foundation, or voluntary aided school, you will be informed of the separate appeals process in the letter informing you of the decision.
Infant class size appeals Due to legislation, no infant class with a single qualified teacher may contain more than 30 pupils. If your application for a place at the school of your preference is refused for these reasons, the Appeal Panel can only uphold your appeal if it is satisfied that: (1) the LA’s decision to refuse a place was not one which a reasonable local education authority would make in the circumstances, or (2) your child would have been offered a place if the published admission arrangements had been properly followed. It must be emphasised, therefore, that appeals of this type will succeed in very few cases (see also Page 113). Further information is available on www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions.
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Waiting lists If a school is oversubscribed and children have been refused admission because other children have a higher priority for admission under the published admissions criteria, those applicants who are unsuccessful will be asked if they wish to be placed on a waiting list. Children on the waiting list will be ranked in accordance with the published admissions criteria and the list will operate from the point of allocation of places until 31 August 2022. Inclusion on a school’s waiting list does not mean that a place will eventually become available there. A child’s position on a waiting list is not fixed and is subject to change during the year, i.e. they can go up or down the list. If a parent requests that their child’s name be added to the waiting list of a school that was ranked lower on the preference form than the school allocated, the child’s name will be placed on the waiting list in accordance with the published admissions criteria. Places that become available between the point of allocation and 31 August 2022 will be offered to children according to their ranking on this list, i.e. those ranked highest will be offered first.
What do I need to consider before expressing my preference Please think very carefully before making your preferences and assess the likelihood of your application being agreed. You will be able to assess whether a school is usually oversubscribed by the number of applications received for the school against the published admission number or the number of appeals held in previous years. This information is given on Page 119 onwards. Other local authorities can provide you with similar information. Parents can obtain information, advice and guidance from the School Admissions Service regarding the admission process. Telephone 0300 555 2345. Whose address may I use on the application? The child’s address is considered to be the child’s parents’ genuine principal place of residence at the time of the allocation of places (16 April 2021), where they are normally and regularly living. If a child is resident with friends or relatives for reasons other than legal guardianship, the friends’ or relatives’ address will not be considered. Due to problems in previous years, it may be necessary for the School Admissions Service to carry out checks to confirm that information given in relation to a child’s home address is genuine. Parents may be asked to produce documentary evidence of the address given within 48 hours. It may be necessary for a home visit to assist in the process of verifying an address. Also, parents may be asked to provide the child benefit proof, working/tax credits, at least one utility bill, together with a driving licence and bank statement clearly showing names and addresses. The evidence must demonstrate where the child resides as well as the parent.
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Please note: if your child’s permanent residence changes at any point from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021, it is the parents’ responsibility to notify the LA. You must do this even if you have notified your child’s school/nursery. If you fail to do so, this may result in any offer of a school place being withdrawn. This has occurred previously. The School Admissions Service may use other council databases to check the information provided on the form is correct, as well as databases in neighbouring local authorities
Infant class size legislation Legislation states that no infant class may contain more than 30 pupils and be taught by one fully qualified teacher. Only in very limited circumstances can admission over 30 be permitted. Please contact the Admissions Service if you would like more detailed information regarding this.
What do I need to do before I return the completed application form? • Ensure you have read and understood this guide • Check that you have completed all relevant sections of the form • Ensure you have provided any supportive evidence required • Completed any additional forms, where necessary (please check the admissions arrangements of each school to which you are applying).
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Special educational need and the Children & Families Act 2014 At the beginning of each new school year, a very small number of children will be starting school with a recognised special educational need or disability, identified either through a medical professional, early educational setting or another route. In most cases, there will have been detailed contact with parents and/or carers and arrangements for starting school will have been carefully planned. Once they have had a chance to settle down and become used to the new school routines, the vast majority of children starting primary school will thrive in their new environment. Nevertheless, as a parent and/or carer, and after a period of time, you may feel that your child is experiencing some difficulties with his or her learning. All Dudley primary schools have Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) and every school is required, by law, to publish SEN Information on their school website which describes how the school will identify and assess children who may have special educational needs or disability (SEND). This requirement is set out in the SEND Code of Practice published by the Department for Education in January 2015. If you have any concerns at all, in the first instance, you should talk to your child’s class teacher or the school’s SENCO. Then, if necessary, the Headteacher who will be able to discuss your concerns in more detail.
Further information or advice may be obtained from: The SEN Team Ladies Walk Centre Ladies Walk Dudley DY3 3UA Tel: 01384 814360 Email: [email protected]
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Privacy Notice This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how we collect, how we use and intend to share information about you. We are required to give you this information under data protection law. Who is the Data Controller for the information you provide? Dudley Borough Council is the Data Controller for the personal information you provide. The Council’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted on 0300 555 8283 or by email to [email protected]. We collect and hold information about you and your child in order to process your application regarding your child’s admission to school. The Local Authority and schools will need this information to ensure the application is assessed appropriately. Why do we need your information? We use your information to allocate your child a place at school in accordance with the School Admissions Code December 2014 and the legislation set out in the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998. The Council is responsible for processing admissions to reception class and transfers from primary to secondary school, and also processes all in-year admission requests, i.e. where a child is moving between schools within the authority, or has moved into the authority from another authority. What legal basis allows us to use your information? The Department of Education’s School Admissions Code published in December 2014, which has statutory force, underpins legislation set out in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. This requires parents and carers to apply for a school place, requests parents/carers to express their school preferences and allows them an opportunity on the form (and any supplementary form/s) to outline the reasons why they are requesting the school(s) of preference. For school appeals, the Department for Education’s School Admission Appeals Code published in February 2012, which has statutory force, underpins legislation set out in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 which sets out the requirement to allow a parent/carer to appeal for a school place if they have been refused. The lawful basis for processing your personal data is ‘Public Task’ as we need the information to carry out our public functions as set out in law. We collect the following information You are required to complete all aspects of the application form. We collect the following information: • your personal information (such as name, home address, contact details and email address). • your child’s personal information (such as name, date of birth, address if different from yours). • Council Tax number. • current or previous education provision. • school preference information and parent’s reasons for selection. • name and date of birth of any sibling already attending your preferred school. • looked after children, adoption, special guardianship order or child arrangement history. • professional supporting documents if relevant to your application. • background education history if applying for an in-year admission. • country of origin if a new arrival to the country.
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• Medical information about your child, if pertinent to the application, in line with the medical criteria. We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows: • additional admissions related information that you have provided directly to your preferred or offered school. • confirmation of looked after children, adoption, special guardianship order or child arrangement history from Virtual Schools. • confirmation of Education Health and Care Plan status from SEN Department. • the result of any school’s own academic/aptitude test that your child has taken part in. • faith information if application relates to faith criteria. How do we collect your information? The initial application for your child to start primary school or transfer from primary to secondary school can either be submitted online or a paper application. Transfers in-year require a hard copy application to be completed. Additional information may be requested either by letter, email, telephone, or face-to-face. Who do we share the information with? The Admissions Team intends to, where a lawful basis exists, also use your information for other legitimate purposes and will share (where necessary) with other Council departments and external bodies responsible for administering services to children and young people. Reasons for sharing information with the internal and external bodies will be; to enable the processing of school application, to fulfil the council’s safeguarding duty and comply with the Prevent Strategy, and to provide Central Government bodies with mandatory data returns, The Home Office to notify of potential illegal immigration, and the Police, at times, request information as part of a criminal investigation. We intend, where necessary, to also share your information with: • Any of your preferred schools, including the school your child is allocated. • Members of the independent appeals panel, where necessary, in accordance with the School Admission Code and the School Admissions Appeals Code. • Black Country Foundation Partnership Trust for school health visits and checks • Relevant information with neighbouring authorities when applying for a school in their authority in accordance with the schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 • Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust (BCHT) to assist with the administration and management of the Child Health Information System. • Teams within Dudley Council working to improve outcomes for children and young people. • External bodies including; other Councils/boroughs where appropriate, Central Government bodies comprising of the Department for Education, the Local Government Ombudsmen and the Office of the School Adjudication. • For the purpose of validating proof of address, the School Admissions Team will refer to data held by any of the services mentioned above, Council Tax Records, the Housing Team, Elections and the Fraud Team • We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
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How long will the personal information be kept? The information provided will be retained by the Admissions Service until your child reaches government statutory school leaving age. Will this information be used to make an automated decision about me? No – School places are allocated for Primary Reception and Secondary Year 7 intake using an automated decision-making process. The local authority will have manually entered the criteria for each application, the system will then allocate the highest school preference that each child can be offered. Keeping your information secure Your information will be securely stored on the Management Information System used by the Council to process application for school admissions and appeals. Currently this is the Synergy Servelec system, but this may change should the Council change its IT provider at any time in the future. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so. Your rights and access to your information You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. The new General Data Protection Regulation also gives you additional rights about information we hold about you and how we use it, including the right to: Request to have your information deleted where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing and provided that there are no legitimate grounds for retaining it. Request your information to be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete. Have your information transferred or copied should you move to another authority. To submit a Subject Access Request email the Admissions Team at [email protected] If you have any concerns Please contact us if you would like to know more about the information we hold about you and how we use it. The School Admissions Team can be contacted on Tel: 0300 555 2345 between 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. You have the right to complain to us if you think we have not complied with our obligation for handling your personal information. Please contact our Data protection officer at [email protected] or write to Data Protection Officer, Information Governance Service, The Council House, Priory Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1HF. Your concerns will be investigated via the respective Council’s complaints procedures. If you are not satisfied with the Council’s response, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you the right to complain to the information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You can visit the ICO website at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/ In addition, the Corporate Privacy Notice is available at at www.dudley.gov.uk/privacy-disclaimer- statement.
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Details of all Dudley primary schools The following table provides information relating to the allocation of places in 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. It gives a breakdown of how places were allocated in accordance with the admissions criteria for each of the schools. It has been included in an attempt to give you as much information as possible regarding admission to schools in the Dudley Borough. There is no guarantee that a similar situation will occur in 2021/2022.
Key to columns Type Categorisation of school A - Academy C - Community FD – Foundation VC - Voluntary controlled VA - Voluntary aided
PAN 2021/2022 Published admission number for Reception Class (number of places available as agreed by the local authority in consultation with school governors). NOR Total number of pupils on roll January 2020 Census (Excludes nursery places, where applicable). ** Data available direct from the school. Distance to home measurement Distances are calculated on the basis of a straight-line measurement between the applicant’s home address and the school’s main entrance. The LA uses a computerised system from Synergy which calculates all distances in metres. The co-ordinates of the applicant’s home address are taken from the Ordnance Survey’s Address Base™ digital data product. The co-ordinates of the school are those of the ‘main entrance point’ nominated by a senior member of staff, marked and digitised with reference to Ordnance Survey MasterMap™ digital data product. If you would like further information in respect of this, please contact the School Admissions Service. Furthest distance The distance of the last applicant admitted under the distance criteria in metres. Please note that this measurement will vary from year-to-year, dependent on the addresses of the applicants. On request, the School Admissions Service will undertake individual measurements for parents before places are allocated. Useful websites: www.education.gov.uk www.gov.uk/find-school-in-england Note: Where there are no entries in any of the columns, this indicates that all children who applied were admitted to the school. School information www.dudley.gov.uk/resident/learning-school/schools-and-colleges All primary schools are listed. Please note that all Dudley primary schools are co-educational - there are no single sex primary schools.
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Number of appeals ------4/0 1/1 heard and allowed 1/0
Furthest distance ------367 1358 2089 admitted - metres 1244
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9 6 25 17 17 10 20 22 23 20 20 17 Siblings 25 25 25 33 12 17
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 Children looked after 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total number 41 39 39 22 19 27 53 60 60 39 44 45 admitted 46 60 60 45 37 45
Total 1st preference 9 39 35 34 16 13 51 54 59 37 46 49 applications 44 57 52 64 34 49
92 86 Total applications 81 86 81 49 52 66 165 106 115 122 129 163 124 136 128 168
Published Admission 60 45 45 45 Number 60 60 60 45 30 45 45 60 60 30 45 60 60 45(30)
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 45 Number for 2021/2022 60 45 45 30 60
Total NOR January 269 2020 416 289 289 190 406 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 5 3 5 3 5 3
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- Blanford Mere Primary Mere Blanford Estate Mere Blanford Walk, Mimosa 7EA DY6 Kingswinford 818365 01384 Miller) (Mrs N Belle Vue Primary Primary Vue Belle Wordsley Road, Lawnswood 5BZ DY8 Stourbridge 818615 01384 Marshall) J (Mr (Mr K Butler) Butler) K (Mr Primary CE Beechwood Road Beechwood 7QA DY2 Dudley 816715 01384 A (Ms Williams) 01384 818335 01384 Cook J (Ms Primary Park Ashwood Wordsley Estate, Park Ashwood Bells Lane, off 5DJ DY8 Stourbridge 818545 01384 The Northway, The 3PS DY3 Dudley 816610 01384 Mandelstam) P (Mr Primary Amblecote Amblecote Drive, School 4DQ DY8 Stourbridge, telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Coppice Alder Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C C A C C FD Type
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Number of appeals ------2/0 1/0 3/0 2/0 1/0 5/0 heard and allowed 1/0
Furthest distance - - - - - 958 728 644 687 1270 4948 3026 3344 1579 1997 admitted - metres 1003 1476 1282
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
12 17 12 22 24 18 15 28 22 21 19 28 Siblings 16 12 13 27 22 27
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 Children looked after 0 1 0 2 1 2
Total number 30 31 30 43 47 50 43 44 45 60 53 60 admitted 30 30 30 60 60 60
Total 1st preference 35 33 27 39 46 46 37 47 44 53 54 60 applications 38 41 41 74 62 65
79 Total applications 87 85 83 59 79 96 79 88 104 103 104 113 104 102 169 157 154
Published Admission 45 60 60 60 Number 30 30 30 60 60 60 30 30 30 60 60 60 45 60
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 60 Number for 2021/2022 30 60 30 60 45
Total NOR January 385 2020 209 418 203 366 310 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 5 3 3 2 3 5
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Brook Primary Brook Wordsley Street, George 5YN DY8 Stourbridge 818835 01384 Fellows) M (Ms Bromley Hills Primary Hills Bromley Drive Granville 8LW DY6 Kingswinford 816940 01384 Stevens) J (Mr (Mrs T Allport) Allport) (Mrs T Primary Brockmoor Brockmoor Isle, Belle 3UZ DY5 Brierley Hill 816635 01384 Bond) R (Mr 01384 818915 01384 Guest) (Mrs L Primary Brierley Hill Street Mill 2TD DY5 Brierley Hill 816980 01384 Blowers Green Road Green Blowers 8UZ DY2 Dudley 818490 01384 Sehmbi) S (Mrs Primary Bramford Woodsetton Park Road, 4JH DY1 Dudley telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Green Blowers Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C C C C A A Type
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Furthest distance ------789 486 719 658 2444 2523 1409 admitted - metres 1676 2808 3030
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
21 14 14 32 43 31 18 27 26 13 11 18 Siblings 14 17 15 35 31 25
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EHCP 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 Children looked after 1 1 1 0 0 1
Total number 45 37 35 56 67 70 60 58 60 30 29 30 admitted 25 30 30 75 75 75
Total 1st preference 52 38 33 54 60 51 56 57 67 41 34 52 applications 22 31 33 93 81 72
Total applications 48 55 66 87 84 93 185 104 113 124 147 149 136 114 101 124 190 186
Published Admission 60 30 30 30 Number 30 30 30 75 75 75 45 45 45 90 90 90 60 60
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 30 Number for 2021/2022 30 75 45 90 60
Total NOR January 208 2020 206 521 297 565 408 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 5 5 3 5 3 5
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- DFE No: 3323010 No: DFE - DFE No: 3322102 No: DFE
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Cradley CE Primary CE Cradley Road Church B63 2UL Halesowen 818230 01384 M (MsHarris) Cotwall End Primary End Cotwall Road End Cotwall 3YG DY3 Dudley Sedgley, 818730 01384 Williams) (Ms C (Mr S Hudson) Hudson) S (Mr Primary Colley Lane Colley Lane B63 2TN Halesowen 816765 01384 Hale) (Ms H 01384 818375 01384 S (Ms Riley) Primary Ascension the of Church Heath Wall Street, New 9AH DY6 Kingswinford 818760 01384 Beeches View Avenue View Beeches B63 2ES Halesowen 818875 01384 Holden (Mrs L CE Primary Christ Church Coseley Road, Church 8YB Bilston WV14 telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Caslon Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A C VC VA VC Type
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Number of appeals ------2/0 heard and allowed 1/0
Furthest distance ------868 1194 admitted - metres 1675
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
7 9 9 9 10 11 24 10 11 14 18 19 20 17 Siblings 12 14 15 17
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 Children looked after 1 0 1 1 0 1
Total number 11 27 20 59 27 20 26 38 40 43 45 45 admitted 28 30 30 23 30 25
Total 1st preference 10 23 20 54 23 20 25 37 28 39 42 48 applications 26 39 28 23 31 20
71 94 Total applications 67 85 77 81 92 90 39 61 49 61 49 135 104 109 102 135
Published Admission 45 45 45 45 Number 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 60 30 30 45 45
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 45 Number for 2021/2022 30 30 30 60 45
Total NOR January 300 2020 212 203 189 412 293 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 3 5 3 5 3 5
DFE No: 3322152 No: DFE
-
DFE No: 3322043 No: DFE
DFE No: 3322072 No: DFE
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DFE No: 3322063 No: DFE DFE No: 3322005 No: DFE -
DFE No: 3322068 No: DFE
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- - Foxyards Primary Foxyards Road Foxyards 8BH Tipton DY4 818740 01384 Z (MsLowe) Fairhaven Primary Fairhaven Wordsley Lane, Barnett 5PY DY8 Stourbridge 818385 01384 T (Mr Garner) (Ms G Anderson) Anderson) G (Ms Primary Wood Dudley Road Wood Dudley 0DB DY2 Dudley 818690 01384 Guest) E (Ms 01384 818770 01384 Maskell) (Mrs L Primary Community Dingle Madeley Road 8PF DY6 Kingswinford 818305 01384 Crestwood Park Estate Estate Park Crestwood 8RP DY6 Kingswinford 818315 01384 A (Ms Cooper) Primary Brook Dawley Fields Valley Avenue, Dubarry 9BP DY6 Kingswinford telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Avenue Lapwood Park Crestwood Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C C A C C C Type
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Number of appeals ------3/0 3/0 1/0 heard and allowed 2/0
Furthest distance ------856 654 411 816
admitted - metres 3223 1308
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9 7 13 14 21 16 11 16 24 25 11 15 Siblings 39 41 37 19 24 27
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 1 1
2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Children looked after 0 1 0 0 1 2
Total number 40 40 40 30 30 28 34 44 60 30 20 30 admitted 85 73 82 52 60 60
Total 1st preference 54 52 76 34 33 24 30 38 60 29 20 36 applications 71 69 60 50 64 68
48 44 66 Total applications 72 66 67 98 144 181 164 193 138 167 170 210 228 246 110
Published Admission 60 30 30 30 Number 90 90 90 60 60 60 40 40 40 30 30 30 60 60
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 30 Number for 2021/2022 90 60 40 30 60
Total NOR January 193 2020 601 412 280 198 394 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 2 3 3 5 3 5
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DFE No: 3322145 No: DFE DFE No: 3322143 No: DFE DFE No: 3322109 No: DFE
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Interim
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Stylianides
C Hawbush Primary Hawbush Road Hawbush 3NH DY5 Brierley Hill 816930 01384 McConomy) R (Mr Ham Dingle Primary Dingle Ham Lane Old Ham 0UN DY9 Stourbridge Pedmore, 818965 01384 Hunt (Ms D (Ms Primary CE Halesowen Street High B63 3BB Halesowen 818885 01384 Knowles) (Mrs L 01384 816960 01384 Powell) (Mrs T Primary Greenfield Hill Street 1AL DY8 Stourbridge 818585 01384 The Broadway The 3HL DY8 Stourbridge Norton, 818600 01384 A (Mrs Hannaway) Primary Glynne Cot Lane 9TH DY6 Kingswinford telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Gig Mill Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A C C C VA Type
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Number of appeals ------4/0 1/0 4/0 2/0 1/0 2/0 1/0 heard and allowed 3/0
Furthest distance ------511 755 823 1486 admitted - metres 1116 1681 1842 1157 1146
Faith 0 1 3 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9 24 20 30 40 29 25 21 16 14 35 55 28 Siblings 13 14 31 27 28
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 1 1
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Children looked after 1 0 0 1 0 1
Total number 57 51 58 60 60 60 30 29 28 74 90 83 admitted 22 30 30 60 60 61
Total 1st preference 55 42 50 83 65 65 34 30 28 69 94 61 applications 20 35 29 52 84 76
55 Total applications 66 71 69 62 63 124 156 141 171 200 176 146 118 139 151 140 143
Published Admission 45 90 90 Number 30 30 30 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 45 45 75 (90) 75
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 90 Number for 2021/2022 30 60 60 60 45
Total NOR January 609 2020 230 422 404 422 258 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 3 2 5 3 5 5
DFE No: 3322156 No: DFE
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Acting Head) Acting Head)
DFE No: 3322137 No: DFE
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DFE 3322124 No: DFE
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- DFE No: 3323306 No: DFE
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- Jesson’s CE Primary CE Jesson’s Street School 2AQ DY1 Dudley 816825 01384 S (Ms Lea) Hurst Hill Primary Hurst Hill Coseley Street, Paul 9AJ Bilston WV14 818845 01384 Keen) (Ms R (Mr J Harold) Harold) J (Mr Primary Hurst Green Lane Narrow B62 9NZ Halesowen 818210 01384 Kelly) V (Ms 01384 818395 01384 A Lewis) (Miss Primary Huntingtree Estate Hasbury Hill, Bournes B63 4DZ Halesowen 818650 01384 Hob Green Road Green Hob 9EX DY9 Stourbridge Fields, Pedmore 816730 01384 Bostock M (Ms Primary Grange Howley Road Grange Howley B62 0HS Halesowen telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Green Hob Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
A C C C A VA Type
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Number of appeals ------1/0 2/0 3/0 1/0 1/0 heard and allowed 10/0
Furthest distance ------975 929 2176 5210 1220 1518 admitted - metres 1291 1758 3697
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
8 38 30 43 11 14 10 15 11 25 22 21 Siblings 20 20 29 21 25 14
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 EHCP 0 1 0 0 0 1
3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Children looked after 0 2 0 0 0 0
Total number 90 90 90 23 28 29 22 31 29 59 60 60 admitted 41 51 60 45 45 45
Total 1st preference 94 83 20 27 26 20 23 20 80 59 80 38 42 57 62 51 37 applications 106
72 Total applications 93 96 97 84 63 82 65 74 84 246 226 212 180 184 143 189 251
Published Admission 30 60 60 60 60 60 60 45 45 45 90 90 30 30 30 30 30 Number 211
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 60 Number for 2021/2022 60 45 90 30 30
Total NOR January 421 2020 401 347 626 203 207 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 3 3 5 5 5 5
DFE No: 3322120 DFE
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DFE No: 3322035 No: DFE
DFE No: 3322139 No: DFE -
DFE No: 3322010 No: DFE
DFE No: 3322160 No: DFE
- DFE No: 3322107 No: DFE
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-
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Acting) Acting)
- Milking Bank Primary Bank Milking Bank Milking Way, Aintree 2SL DY1 Dudley 816695 01384 Brass) K (Mrs Manor Way Primary Way Manor Road Mill Brier B63 3HA Halesowen 7310 272 0121 Buffery) (Mrs L (Ms K Hall K (Ms Hall Primary Maidensbridge Road Beachcroft 0HX DY6 Kingswinford Wall Heath, 818405 01384 K (Mrs Thomas) 01384 818200 01384 Turner) J (Ms Primary Lutley Road Brookwillow B63 1BU Halesowen 818220 01384 Peel Street, Kates Hill Kates Street, Peel 7HP DY2 Dudley 818700 01384 K (Ms Harvey) Primary Lapal Priory Road B62 0BZ Halesowen telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Community Hill Kates Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A C A A A Type
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Number of appeals ------7/0 1/0 2/0 3/0 7/0 3/0 heard and allowed 2/0
Furthest distance ------993 948 913 1197 1115 2734 3610 admitted - metres 1157 1000 4350
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
14 30 25 27 26 21 31 27 19 24 22 24 Siblings 23 24 12 23 29 23
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 Children looked after 0 0 0 0 0 2
Total number 33 58 51 60 60 60 42 60 60 60 56 60 admitted 50 50 50 54 60 60
Total 1st preference 32 50 43 64 66 64 42 51 56 52 49 66 applications 53 61 41 50 70 77
Total applications 75 95 77 132 165 195 226 143 151 145 104 139 141 102 145 130 160 124
Published Admission 60 60 60 60 50 50 50 60 60 60 60 60 45 60 60 60 60 60
Number (60)
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 60 Number for 2021/2022 50 60 60 60 60
Total NOR January 419 2020 340 418 384 466 397 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 5 3 3 3 5 5
DFE No: 3322036 DFE
- DFE No: 3322147 DFE
DFE 3322011 No: DFE
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DFE No: 3323050 DFE
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N Bennett N Oldswinford CE Primary CE Oldswinford Oldswinford Field Lane, 2JQ DY8 Stourbridge 818790 01384 Game) E (Ms Northfield Road Primary Road Northfield Road Northfield 9ER DY2 Dudley Netherton, 818710 01384 (Ms (Mr A Ruston) Ruston) A (Mr Primary Park Newfield Road Whittingham B63 3TP Halesowen 818640 01384 Payne) S (Mr 01384 818415 01384 Rawlings) P (Mr Primary CE Netherton Netherton Road, Highbridge 0HU DY2 Dudley 816895 01384 Mount Pleasant Mount Bank Quarry 816910 01384 2YN DY5 Robinson) (Mrs H Primary Netherbrook Netherton Road, Chester 9RZ DY2 Dudley telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Pleasant Mount Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
A C A A C VC Type
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Number of appeals ------1/0 2/0 heard and allowed 1/0 3/0
Furthest distance ------825 801 565 1632 1690 2593 admitted - metres 4264 3261
Faith ** ** ** N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
6 13 14 45 44 49 33 37 43 23 15 23 Siblings 21 29 23 11 13 15
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 EHCP 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Children looked after 1 0 0 0 0 0
Total number 30 30 30 60 79 90 44 45 45 55 55 60 30 30 30 admitted 111 104 120
Total 1st preference 35 35 47 94 93 58 70 83 43 47 59 38 44 47 25 37 42 applications 109
89 Total applications 91 81 75 123 105 115 100 107 106 141 139 168 197 191 203 100 115
Published Admission 90 45 45 45 60 60 60 30 30 30 30 30 30 90 90 Number 120 120 120
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 45 60 30 30 90 Number for 2021/2022 120
Total NOR January 303 2020 407 211 221 794 576
11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range ------2 3 5 5 3 3
DFE No: 3323357 No: DFE
DFE No: 3322153 DFE
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Quarry Bank Primary Bank Quarry Bank Quarry Street, High 2AD DY5 Brierley Hill 818750 01384 A (Ms Rawlings) Priory Primary Priory Estate Priory Road, Limes 4HN DY1 Dudley 816845 01384 Craig) J (Ms (Mr D Dunn) Dunn) D (Mr Primary Hill Peters Amblecote Road, Hill Peters 2QH DY5 Brierley Hill 816740 01384 Duncan) S (Mr 01384 816880 01384 Finnegan) (Ms C Primary CE Pedmore Pedmore Road, Hagley 0RH DY9 Stourbridge 818955 01384 Springfield Road Springfield B62 8JZ Halesowen 818855 01384 Grasby) (Ms H Primary RC St Kenelm & Lady Our Hill Bundle B63 4AR Halesowen telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Hill Olive Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A C A VA VA Type
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Number of appeals ------1/0 7/0 3/0 1/0 heard and allowed 3/0 3/0
Furthest distance ------881 1096 1912 1387 1428 1303 3661 1095 2767 admitted - metres 2255
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
38 36 37 12 11 20 30 24 19 53 48 43 Siblings 37 36 31 23 18 19
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 EHCP 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 Children looked after 0 2 1 1 2 0
Total number 90 90 90 23 19 30 60 60 60 90 87 90 admitted 64 71 76 50 38 46
Total 1st preference 92 98 23 21 30 65 75 46 89 78 80 59 69 68 42 38 44 applications 101
Total applications 89 34 33 58 134 130 132 140 111 121 139 107 110 224 238 245 132 164
Published Admission 60 90 90 90 Number 90 90 90 45 45 45 90 90 90 30 30 30 60 60
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 90 Number for 2021/2022 90 45 90 30 60
Total NOR January 610 2020 549 317 624 190 416 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 3 3 3 3 3 5
DFE No: 3322052 DFE
DFE No: 3322118 No: DFE -
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DFE No: 3322136 3322136 No: DFE
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) DFE No: 3322004 No: DFE DFE No: 3322149 No: DFE
DFE 3322144 No: DFE
- - - A Harrison Sledmere Primary Sledmere Road Buffery off Drive, School 8EH DY2 Dudley 818425 01384 Bravo) P (Mr Russells Hall Primary Hall Russells Estate Hall Russells Road, Overfield 2NX DY1 Dudley 816785 01384 (Ms (Ms D Hunt) Hunt) (Ms D Primary Rufford Avenue Bredon 7NR DY9 Stourbridge 818975 01384 Middleton) A (Mrs 01384 813850 01384 Tomlinson) (Mrs H Primary Roberts Gornal Lower Street, Roberts 2AZ DY3 Dudley 818275 01384 Bilston Street, Sedgley Street, Bilston 1JB DY3 Dudley 812545 01384 Rindi) (Ms C Primary Hall Red Gornal Lower Street, Zoar 2PA DY3 Dudley telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Victoria Queen Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
A C C C C C Type
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Number of appeals ------3/0 4/0 1/0 1/0 3/0 6/0 6/0 heard and allowed 2/0
Furthest distance ------310 414 312 756 713 741 406 647 928 1124 admitted - metres 2295 1416
** ** ** ** ** ** Faith ** ** ** ** ** ** N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
4 9 7 14 12 17 15 13 12 28 18 12 Siblings 15 12 13 27 23 22
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Children looked after 1 0 0 4 0 1
Total number 30 31 30 30 30 30 22 30 30 45 43 36 admitted 30 30 30 60 59 61
Total 1st preference 54 49 59 39 37 30 20 44 38 50 44 35 applications 39 27 37 71 57 68
76 75 67 Total applications 83 92 81 75 78 89 163 100 136 110 122 114 119 118 148
Published Admission 30 45 45 45 Number 30 30 30 60 60 60 30 60 30 30 30 30 30 30
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 45 Number for 2021/2022 30 60 30 30 30
Total NOR January 281 2020 210 409 211 207 216 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 3 5 5 3 5 5
DFE No: 3323304 DFE No:
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)
3323358
3323355
DFE No: 3323052 DFE
- DFE No: 3323008 DFE
- DFE No: No: DFE 3323302 No: DFE Executive Head Executive
DFE No: No: DFE - -
– - 89423 Shepherd) Shepherd) Rondeau) Rondeau)
M Hinton M Hinton
St Mark’s CE Primary CE StMark’s Pensnett Street, High 4DZ DY5 Brierley Hill 818935 01384 K (Mr St Margaret’s at Hasbury CE Primary CE Hasbury at StMargaret’s Hasbury Road, Hagley B63 4QD Halesowen 818660 01384 S (Mrs (Mr M Hinton) M (Mr Hinton) Primary RC StJoseph’s Vale Road Lea 2DT DY8 Stourbridge Norton, 818325 01384 Carry) A (Mr 01384 818810 01384 Mason) (Ms L Primary RC StJoseph’s Road Hillcrest 7PW DY2 Dudley 818925 01384 Catholic Lane, Sedgley Lane, Catholic 3UE DY3 Dudley 8 01384 (Mr Primary CE StJames’s Wollaston Kingsway, 4RU DY8 Stourbridge telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary RC St Chad’s Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
A A A VC VC VA Type
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Number of appeals ------2/0 1/0 6/0 heard and allowed 1/0
Furthest distance ------511 916 1493 3182 3057 3182 3057 1708 admitted - metres 1248 1033 1004
Faith ** ** ** N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9 28 26 18 14 26 18 24 18 17 12 14 15 Siblings 13 13 14 11 10
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Children looked after 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total number 60 60 60 28 60 60 30 38 36 30 29 31 admitted 30 30 30 30 30 27
Total 1st preference 61 60 53 24 60 53 39 34 33 33 29 29 applications 37 27 42 35 28 22
65 Total applications 93 86 67 64 57 86 67 75 139 111 110 107 141 141 146 141 146
Published Admission 30 30 30 Number 30 30 30 30 30 30 60 60 30 60 30 45 45(55) 45(60) 45(60)
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 30 Number for 2021/2022 30 30 60 30 30
Total NOR January 208 2020 219 204 401 206 266 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 5 5 5 5 3 2
DFE No: 3322132 No: DFE
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DFE No: 3322150 No: DFE
DFE No: 3323303 No: DFE Acting - DFE No: 3322122 No: DFE DFE No: 3322104 No: DFE
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DFE No: 3323009 No: DFE
Pensnett Primary Pensnett - -
818435 Ms C Simmons Simmons Ms C The Ridge Primary Ridge The Road Gregory 3NF DY8 Stourbridge 818800 01384 Hudson) (Mrs D The Bromley The Pensnett Bromley, 4PJ DY5 Brierley Hill 816865 01384 ( (Mr L Hazelhurst) L Hazelhurst) (Mr Primary Tenterfields Tenterfields B63 Halesowen 818560 01384 Simpson) D (Mr 01384 O O’Beirne) (Ms Primary Straits Straits, The Road, Longfellow 3EE DY3 Dudley Gornal, Lower 818575 01384 Queen Street Queen 7AQ DY6 Kingswinford 818295 01384 Booth) P (Mr Primary RC StMary’s Street Mill 2TH DY5 Brierley Hill telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary CE StMary’s Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A A C A VC Type
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Number of appeals ------2/0 1/1 2/0 1/0 heard and allowed 3/0
Furthest distance ------913 513 1260 1176 3245 1112 admitted - metres 1310
Faith N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
28 21 32 27 26 23 22 26 21 22 34 33 Siblings 11 11 10 11 20 18
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medical 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 EHCP 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Children looked after 10
Total number 60 61 60 46 51 54 57 56 60 54 60 60 admitted 20 23 30 25 36 44
Total 1st preference 65 69 74 43 48 45 52 44 58 51 68 68 applications 20 20 31 21 33 42
85 81 77 Total applications 70 71 92 51 66 74 76 74 82 96 79 102 185 177 171
Published Admission 60 60 60 60 Number 30 30 30 45 45 45 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60
Admissions to academic year 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2020/21 2019/20
Published Admission 60 Number for 2021/2022 30 45 60 60 60
Total NOR January 417 2020 193 296 413 394 386 11 11 11 11 11 11 - Age range - - - - - 2 5 5 5 3 5
DFE No: 3322048 DFE DFE 3322140 No: DFE
DFE No: 3322126 No: DFE -
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DFE No: 3322111 DFE DFE No: 3322146 DFE - DFE No: 3322067 DFE
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) Primary
Primary
Wren’s Nest Primary Nest Wren’s Estate Nest Wren’s Road, Foxglove 3NQ DY1 Dudley 818515 01384 Parkes) S (Ms Woodside Community School and Children’s Centre Children’s and School Community Woodside Woodside Road, Highgate 0SN DY2 Dudley 818245 01384 Bloomer) S (Mrs (Ms A Wootton) A (Ms Wootton) Primary Wollescote Road Drummond 8YA DY9 Stourbridge Wollescote, 818500 01384 Hudson (Ms L 01384 818985 01384 Longden) (Mrs C Withymoor Lane Turners off Avenue, Gayfield 2BH DY5 Hill Brierley Bank Quarry 818530 01384 Thorns Road, Quarry Bank, Quarry Road, Thorns 2JY DY5 Brierley Hill 818285 01384 Jordan) (Ms R Wallbrook Lane Bradleys off 5YP WV14 Bilston Coseley, telephone number and name of teacher of name and number telephone Primary Thorns Official name of school, postal address, postal of school, name Official
C A C C C C Type
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Addresses of neighbouring local authorities Parents who wish to consider schools maintained by other authorities are strongly advised to contact the local authority concerned to obtain information about the likelihood of a place being available.
Name of LA Address Contact
Schools Admissions and Fair Access Service 0121 303 1888 Birmingham Education and Skills Directorate www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions Birmingham City Council PO Box 16513 email: [email protected] Birmingham B2 2FF
School Admissions 01905 822700 Worcestershire Children First www.worcestershire.gov.uk Worcestershire County Hall Spetchley Road email: Worcester WR5 2YA [email protected]
School Admissions Service 0121 569 6765 PO Box 16230 www.sandwell.gov.uk/schooladmissions Sandwell Sandwell Council House Freeth Street email: Oldbury B69 9EX [email protected]
School Admissions & Transport Service 01785 278593 / 0300111 8000 2 Staffordshire Place Staffordshire Education Department www.staffordshire.gov.uk Tipping Street email: [email protected] Stafford ST16 2DH
School Admissions Transfer Section 01902 551122 Wolverhampton City Council www.wolverhampton.gov.uk Wolverhampton Schools, Skills and Learning Civic Centre email: St. Peter's Square [email protected] Wolverhampton WV1 1RR
Admissions & Pupil Place Planning Team 01922 652585 Walsall Council Walsall Zone 2E www.walsall.gov.uk Civic Centre email: [email protected] Darwall Street Walsall WS1 1TP
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Useful contacts
Name of Service Email / website Telephone Dudley Family Information [email protected] 01384 814398 Service
www.dudley.gov.uk/residents/learning-and- Travel Support Team 01384 814301 school/education-travel-support
Special Education Needs [email protected] 01384 814360 Team
www.dudley.gov.uk/dudleysendiass SENDIASS 01384 817373 [email protected]
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of- The Schools Adjudicator the-schools-adjudicator 01325 340402 [email protected]
The Department for Education www.gov.uk/dfe 0370 000 2288
The Local Government www.lgo.org.uk 0300 061 0614 Ombudsman 01384 814543 Free School Meals [email protected] (answer machine service) www.dudley.gov.uk/residents/learning-and- Elective Home Education school/education-investigation- 01384 814317 service/educating-your-child-at-home www.dudley.gov.uk/residents/learning-and- Education Investigation school/education-investigation-service 01384 814317 Service [email protected] www.connexionsdudley.org/ Connexions Dudley 01384 811400 [email protected]
Education and Skills Funding www.gov.uk/government/organisations/educatio 0370 000 2288 Agency n-funding-agency
Note: The details contained in the booklet, which relates to the admission of children to school in 2021/22, were correct in August 2020. It should not be assumed that there will be no changes after that date, or that the information contained will apply to the admission of children in subsequent years.
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For further information visit www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions
Call: 0300 555 2345 Email: [email protected]
Correspondence address only School Admissions Children’s Services Directorate The Council House Priory Road Dudley West Midlands DY1 1HF
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