Do schools check that you're living at the address you put down?

If you have tenants there you cannot use that address as your ds residential address. You also need to check address criteria for your LA as owning two addresses in relative proximity can be confusing, although most often if moving nearer the school.

And actually @Twiglets1 they might do a physical check. I can and have done this. The LA do too. Admissions fraud makes me very very cross.

Imagine that his best friend lives further out than your current address but nearer than new one.
Your DS gets a place, friend misses out by 3metres.
Best friends parents would report you, and quite right too.

Yes. Doing what he’s suggested is fraud. They could remove your child’s place even after they’ve started school if it was obtained fraudulently.

You should just delay your move until after your child has started at the school. If it’s close enough for your child to travel to school there from your potential new house surely your partner can keep commuting to work from your current house?

If you have to/choose to move now, you’ll need to apply for schools using the address your child is actually living at when you apply.

Absolutely yes (I work in admissions). We require Council Tax or tenancy agreement, a utility bill or similar, plus evidence of the child's address (eg Child Benefit letter). Date requirements are very strict. If the evidence isn't good enough, we report the family to the LA for fraud investigation..

On a separate note, are you not bothered about the immorality of what your husband is suggesting?

The school do ask to see proof of where you are currently living in the form of a utility bill or council tax form etc.
So I guess if you carry on paying the council tax and maybe get a postal redirection service so letters are delivered to you at your new address, you could manage it. The school won’t do a physical check. Though personally I would probably put off a house move until the school place was confirmed and then move.

Yes

Yes they can and yes they do. School places are taken away every year for this reason.

Not always but over subscribed schools often cross reference and check.

I have certainly heard of occasions when they have. Also you may well get dobbed in by a cross fellow parent who missed out on a place and knows you don't live there.

You will almost certainly need to provide proof of residence, usually in the form of a council tax bill, but sometimes other evidence too (LAs differ on how they check). Lambeth, for example, require multiple forms of proof, such as a council tax bill plus utility bill, as well as evidence of the child's address such as a child benefit letter

The address you apply from needs to be the child's permanent address at the time of application.

If you gain a place through fraud, the place can be removed, even after the child has started school.

It's very likely that they will find out, either through you not being able to provide evidence, someone informing them of your move, or even that the people who rent your house apply for the same school.

If your son is already year 4/5, then then the best thing to do is postpone your move until after school applications.

Yes they do. They cross check against things like council tax records.
Plus what if the renters apply for the school too....?
Your husband is proposing fraud.

Why not just stay where you are?