Apologies for a question that I’m sure as been asked a lot (I did search first).
I have an appeal hearing in a weeks time. The school have sent information about how they are full.
A lot of it seems to be that they don’t have facilities for the PAN, so they can’t take on any more (eg they are 8 toilets short, they don’t have enough gas taps in the labs for one between 2, some classrooms are only big enough for 26)
They also say that they have 4 pupils on roll under the fair access protocol - although they aren’t over PAN in any year according to the roll details. They have given the Fair access protocol as a reason that they can’t take on another child - but presumably this takes a school’s circumstances and Number on roll into account?
The pupil - teacher ratio is lower than national average and lower than all the other local schools, yet they say that more kids will be detrimental for teachers and cause stress.
There have only been 2 successful appeals in the last 6 years, I am not at all confident and very very stressed.
Does anyone have any experience/ advice around whether I could argue that if they don’t have facilities for the PAN one more wont make a big difference!
I have reasons for the appeal by the way.
Thank you!
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courderoy · 08/05/2018 18:31
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