Please ensure that your child actually sits the test.
This may sound obvious, but I'm just back from another day of chairing admissions appeals. In several of them, the point at issue was that the child did not sit the fair banding test and was therefore placed in the "after all the others" band used for the children without a test score. Places are allocated first to the children in the main bands and, when any other places come up, those places too are filled from the waiting list for the relevant band. Children in the "after all the others" band are therefore right at the bottom of the waiting list.
There is very little that an appeal panel can do here. Panels look for (amongst other things) maladministration, but failing to attend the test isn't maladministration on the part of the admissions authority. Schools (and appeal panels) can't just 'slot in' children who haven't taken the test.
So, for anyone already thinking about 2017 admissions, do check whether your preferred school(s) uses a fair banding test and make sure you return the supplementary information form that triggers the invitation to the test.
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PanelChair · 24/05/2016 17:48
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