Wondering if anyone can advise regarding our legal position in a school admissions screw up. Basically, we live within the boundaries of one LEA (let's call it authority A) but our catchment school falls within another LEA (authority B). Story is this:
I completed an online application for DS2 at middle school last November to authority A, as per regulations, 2 months before closing date for applications. Received email from them stating they had received it and I would be notified by 16 April.
Authority A are then obliged to forward the application to Authority B who process it and award places. They inform Authority A of decision who then notify me.
Having not heard anything I chased it up today. Apparently due to a "System Error" at Authority A the application was never sent. The error has now been detected and I am one of 3 parents whose applications were finally sent to Authority B last week!
Authority B will only process the application as a Late Application - despite the error being on the part of Authority A.
Just wondering if anyone can advise where we stand legally if we should fail to be awarded a place at the school? Surely it isn't good enough for Authority A to just shrug their shoulders and say "sorry, it's now a late application" when it clearly wasn't.
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Ujjayi · 30/04/2013 14:23
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