Everyone says moving in the holidays is the best time.
We have moved from wiltshire to Kent - at the beginning of August. However, we were unable to apply for a school place until we had completed on the new house, and even then we had to provide all of the following:
letter from solicitor saying we no longer lived in our previous house
Letter from previous local authority confirming no longer paying council tax there
Final utility bill from previous address
Letter from current local authority confirming we are now council tax payers here
Utility bill or welcome letter from utility company here.
DS birth certificate.
All of these naturally took some time to arrive, so it was about ten days before we could even apply for a school place. So presumably if we'd moved mid term we would be expected to keep our ds out of school for that amount of time...
However, on Friday I received another letter from the LA saying that's not enough and that I also have to provide a letter from the child benefit department confirming the child's name at this address. I duely rang them and they said that such a letter would be with me in fifteen working days.
Once the LA have all their documentation it will take up to three weeks to process.
So while schools start back next week, and I will then have been here for five weeks, it is not inconceiveable that, by the time I receive the child benefit letter and given the three weeks it might take to process our application, ds will have missed the majority of the first term of school.
This is beyond ridiculous - I am applying for a school place for an eight year old, not to join the secret service fgs.
As a result I am seriously having to consider going back to swindon and either moving in with my parents or into a hotel until we are allocated a school place because I do not want ds to miss so much school, and upsetting him into the process as he's already had to say goodbye to his friends once and is now settling here.
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to be pissed off that even though I moved house at the beginning of the summer holidays, my ds will not have a school place for the beginning of term?
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wannaBe · 28/08/2011 21:55
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