Anybody else watching the letterbox, waiting for appeal result letter?

appealtakingovermylife so sorry, I feel your pain as we have lost 2 appeals. We have 'bigged up' the allocated school and gone through all the positives that we can (not many), just reassured him that he will make friends, etc. I think with us we are way more gutted than our son, although some school friends have not helped by slating his allocated school - not fair. Keep smiling somehow, for your son's sake. Think about lodging a complaint with the LGO, or EFA as appropriate.

Thanks Lucas:) there isn't a waiting list as it's random allocation to get in and nobody turned down a place.
I had so much medical evidence and it looks like it hasn't really been considered.
Am dreading seeing my little boy in an hour, he's going to be so upset, this is the second time I will be telling him no. The day we got the original e-mail in March was his 11th birthday and that was hard but to do it twice, awful.
Would be grated for any advice from anybody, thanks xx

8 were successful

Thanks tiggy, the clerk only sent my decision letter, he ran out of time and only sent full letters to 45/64 parents so I rang him and he emailed it.
Basically it shows I made 25 points as to why it's the most suitable school then says at balancing stage they said that my ds needing a mixed sex school does not outweigh the prejudices to the school, that was not even my main reason!! I will be receiving it through the post tomorrow.
What's upset me is the way the panel were with me, saying how brilliant my appeal statement was and that I had done my son proud, gave me a lot of false hope:( my asc son is not capable of getting 2 buses each way on his own to a school that's so far away:( I'm gutted xx

It was a big fat no for us, I'm heartbroken:((

Seconding good luck to appealtakingovermylife and girlinaswirl.

Our decision letter is now in the hands of royal mail and will be here tomorrow, I feel physically sick:(

Bumping this GirlInASwirl. Still thinking of you.

Thanks woodlands.

Well done charlie - excellent result. Onward and upward.....!

After the longest 2 weeks of my life , we found out today that we won our appeal - the only one out of 20 odd that were heard.
Phew !
Good luck to those still waiting - it is awful

Sorry to hear about the first appeal. Fingers crossed for second. Two weeks to wait! It's a blooming nightmare.

Letter come through this morning - didn't win . Have made an initial enquiry about complaints in line with conduct of the hearing. Still awaiting letter as to why we were turned down - to come.

Had second hearing today - went better (I think). Two weeks for answer with that one.

Two big events in one day - my nerves are fried.

How did it go GirlInASwirl?

A massive well done to all that won their appeal, congrats

GirlInASwirl, I just wanted to wish you good luck with your next appeal tomorrow. At least you're know what to expect and have a list of things you have learnt. I so thought I messed up my appeal at the individual hearing so wasn't expecting to win but yes it looks like your written submission carries some weight. Let us know how you get on
x

Well done Cherry - fantastic news! Seems that someone/something is smiling on us at the moment (takes anxious breath!).

Hope we didn't mess up too much on the day - wasn't functioning to full capacity because of the way appeal was handled. It was like everything just went out of my head.

My partner was also there - he has Asperger's syndrome (panel did not know) so sudden changes in plan stump him - and he froze after being shut up.

I hope you are right Lucas about the written submission. I have all my bits crossed that the panel members will come to our aid. I have faith with at least one of them (who mentioned that things were unfair during the hearing).

I have had to pick myself back up again - because we are doing it all again with another school on Tuesday. We have learnt things from the last hearing...

a.) To insist our case gets properly heard
b.) That we need to put out file into better order
c.) That my partner needs a plan on paper in case we get side-lined again
d.) That our summary must cover all aspects of our case against the LEA in case we either miss anything out/it is not heard properly
e.) To relax a bit more - we have one hearing already in the bag (and it was one of the tougher ones).

trying to reassure myself and partner for Tuesday....wish us luck

Cherry, yay!!! Another one:)
This thread seems lucky. I've still got to wait until 26th.
Panel meeting on Wednesday to decide then the clerk will do all the letters and post the following Wednesday, seems so long to wait.
Well done you x

Well I got my letter today and I'VE WON !!!! Just can't believe it. I read the letter about 100 times since as I was so convinced I messed up on the day and felt my appeal went terribly. Good luck to everyone else waiting for their appeal letters.