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LittleHens · 21/03/2025 04:15

@prh47bridge @schooladmission and other admissions experts I would be grateful for advice. My daughter received an offer at our 1st preference school on National
School Offer Day (3rd March) which we accepted later that day. Yesterday (20th March) we received an email from the LA to say that her place had been withdrawn as ‘unfortunately, the system did not pick up the out-of-borough address and calculated the school offer based on your old address we had on our system’.
Needless to say my 11 daughter is heartbroken.

We realise she would not have got a place based on the admissions criteria (we are now out-of-catchment) but for the LA to withdraw the offer after 17 days when it is their error (and not a fraudent application) is unacceptable in my mind. Can anyone offer any advice on the appeal process?
Thanks!

OP posts:
plushi · 21/03/2025 07:19

@justanothercrapbedtime @NerrSnerr you didn't read the OP properly. They applied using their correct address. The LA ignored it and used their own outdated record of the family's address to make the offer. Then they realised their mistake and retracted the offer.

NerrSnerr · 21/03/2025 05:50

Did you apply with the old address and then change it or was the new address on the system all the way through the application? Have they offered an alternative?

I assume someone reported that she got in and clearly didn't meet the criteria. Were there people you know who live closer and didn't get in? If so, alarm bells must have been ringing.

justanothercrapbedtime · 21/03/2025 05:36

how can it not be fraudulent when did you move? Applications closed only a few months ago so you would have already been in the process of moving…

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