thinking they have used my address to gain a school place?

[bostonbaby]

We bought this house at the end of last year.
It is very close to an excellent, very much over subscribed school.
The couple we bought it from had a little kids and we're moving to the next (cheaper, not good schools) area along for a bigger house to fit all their kids in.
Not had any mail for them as assuming they had a redirect set up.
This week we've suddenly had a few bits for them. Including a 'to the parent/guardian of xxx' from the outstanding school
It seems they have applied from this address rather than their own, where they stand no chance of getting in.
What should I do? I feel like returning it to school and saying they haven't lived here since December but then I feel sly. Then I think another child will have missed out on their rightful place. And why should they move to a considerably cheaper area and still get the perks of the more expensive one? My child hasn't missed out on this btw but they have 4 kids now guaranteed a place in that school from this.
Wwyd?

"I think yabu about how 'good your area' is and how these plebs don't deserve a place because they've moved to a less good area."

How on earth did you arrive at THAT interpretation?

There is nothing in the application process that states you must inform if you move before the offer is made.

where I live there is. you are to inform the LA immediately about a change of address.

My point being that no one knows whether this application was in any way fraudulent, thus no one knows whether a child has missed out.

that's why just return to sender stating the addressee has moved. They will then find out what's up.

It could just be a prospectus or rejection letter couldn't it?

Trunkiesareshite- I'm assuming you used your correct address in your application? If so, not a curve ball at all. Can't you read?

If you moved in Dec admissions is from Sept - Jan. It just took us 3 months to sell a house to completion. The OPs house previous owners would have likely known from Sept/Oct that they would be moving. They should have informed the LEA to ensure they actually get all the school info they need.

"I've binned all the other post".. well, aren't you pleasant.

Just drop it off at the school better for the situation to be resolved than on the first day of school when someone else may report them...

Baby- good point. Original offer was made in august. So they knew they would be moving before applications opened. I'm going to drop it in the school

Yes, take it back to the school. I suspect they are trying to pull a fast one, which is unfair to the other kids applying. If they aren't, though, the school still need to know and they can take the appropriate action.

Yep take it to school and just say I got this it looks important. Let them deal. The school should have a phone number or similar. If app was done online they will have email. If this is a settlingin letter they will have had a confirmation.THAT would have been a prompt to change address if they had genuinely forgotten.

Op, I would drop it into school on the way past with a note attached saying 'not at this address'. The school need to get the information out to those parents if it is legit.

At this point 114 posts on something that just needs a RTS on the envelope!
Christ on a bike!

I've seen threads go to a thousand posts debating how to decline a wedding invitation or what to have for dinner so it's hardly that unusual. Calm down, OP can ask what she wants, it's not going to break the internet.

I was in a similar situation with a house move during the application process -- I spoke directly to the council who stated the application would be processed with the old address and the choices we'd put down there, then if we didn't want those schools we could make an in-year application after the move was sorted and we had post at the new address.

Sounds like you may be in an area that does the same. God, I hope you're not the people who bought the house we used to live in!

Is it likely that the school would have had reason before this, (in the past six months) to send post to the family home? If so, it would be clear to the family that the school still believed they lived at the OP's address. If they have not bothered to change it yet, it does seem as if they are misleading the school.

OP, "Return to Sender".

"And why should they move to a considerably cheaper area and still get the perks of the more expensive one?" YABU. An outstanding school is not a 'perk' allocated according to your income.

I am not sympathetic to admissions fraud but making sure places are allocated according to the criteria and within the admissions code is enough. No need to be judgey about whether they deserve to be in a good school having moved to a cheaper area

People are making assumptions about the contents and the actual information of the letter.
It is nothing to do with OP. We are speculating what it might say.
Just stick it in the post box. It's not your problem so stop making it one otherwise you are becoming a drama lama!

DS1 is due to start reception in September, and we have had 2 letters relating to the state school we were offered. One from the LEA with the offer of a place. One from the school giving details of settling in days and uniform.

If the family updated their address details with the LEA, and the school's using the old address in error (certainly possible given they moved mid-way through the time applications were open), this could very well be the first piece of mail to go to the wrong house.

But the only sensible thing to do is to return the letter to the school. Presumably the school will look into it to see what's going on. The OP has no way of telling if they've got the place fraudulently or not. Yes, they might have pretended that they still lived in OP's house. Or they might have given the LEA correct details, got in anyway, and the wrong address on the letter is an administrative error.

YABU and making an awful lot of assumptions here op.

You've received post for the previous occupants of your house - do what most would do and either forward it on or return to sender if you don't have their address.

What a drama!

you sound a bit mean spirited and also pretty nosy. Just send the letter on and stop being such a busy body.

Of course I can read dear. My point is that you are jumping to extreme conclusions and that people out of area do get into 'over subscribed' schools. It is just as possible that it is an admin error not fraud!

I recon you've opened it, otherwise you'd have just binned it with the other post or RTS like a normal person.

I think you are right trunkie

I wouldn't even be looking where it was from.

It was their address. and it's perfectly plausible it was an administration error. everyone here as had drs put the wrong address on prescriptions or had to repeatedly tell the same person the same thing. One person forgets to hit "save " or correctly file a form and everyone here has them trialled and found guilty.

This family could well have actually not git a place now because the forms were sent to wrong address and she never got them.