What does A&T mean in the context of school admissions?

[AtiaoftheJulii]

I applied last year for a secondary school place for my home educated child, and wrote "Home Educated" where it asks for a current school. Now the application (online form) says A&T Out of County Schools. Is it just something simple like Admissions & Transfers? Don't know why it's changed, I'm sure when I'd checked it before 31 October it still said Home Educated!

Not come across that before. Which LA is this?

I work in admin at a school. On SIMS, the school database system, this A and T out of county choice is the only one we can input if a child is coming from home ed, or a private school etc. SIMS will only let us choose known state schools or that. It is nothing to worry out.

About not out (using iPad, sorry)

I only looked because I had an email asking which school she was at. I replied and asked about it (but wasn't expecting a quick reply - thought mumsnet would be quicker, lol) and they said the same, diabolo - that as dd isn't registered as HE that that was the only database option. Thanks for confirming it, I might have raised an eyebrow if I'd only had their explanation!

Everything has to fit in a box - it's quite dispiriting sometimes, I especially hate the ethnic origin part of the database. Wish there was an option for "human".