Questions about primary school please help

[Wivine011217]

Hello everybody I am new to this forums I really need help if someone can answer my questions please , last year I got admitted to the hospital I had an operation that went wrong I spend few months at the hospital , so I had to send my two children to stayed with my parents until I get better , they got a place at a new school in my parents house, started September last year , I lives in London and my parents in Leicester , I am now feeling so much better and I am ready to have them back after summer holidays and I want to know if I want to register them for school place gereb , do I have to wait until they are back with me or I can apply now for them to start at their old school again. They are 9 and 5 years old. Thanks

I think the best thing would be to contact your local authority education department and ask them.

You can contact the school and and see if they have any places available for them to start in September. They should be able to tell you and there will be forms to fill it.

If there are places at their old school you can apply using their current address and they'd have to give you a place, and they can then move.

If there are no places then you'd need to move them first so their registered address is yours, and then they'd be nearer the top of any waiting lists.

If no spaces anywhere near then the council will have to find you a place somewhere eventually using 'fair access protocol'.

You normally have to take up a place within X weeks of being offered it so check with council what would happen if you were offered a place immediately.

They aren't guaranteed a place at old school. Younger will come under infant class size restriction rules which would make winning an appeal harder.

Proper experts on the Primary Education board.

Thank you so much everybody I will do as you all suggested