admissions help

[jbl2312]

hi everyone, i am mum to a 4 year old (5 in feb), i am so confused after contacting the school admissions this morning ask for some advice, the person i talked to was first lacking in any kind of understanding of what i was asking and had to keep going off to find out and secondly told me that i could not reapply for a school untill june 2012 when my daughter has to be in full time education by easter!!...we turned down the place allocated to us due to several difficulties in the hope a local school would become available, we are now worried that a place is not going to become available and just wanted to know if we could reapply to the school we turned down, do i just reapply or do i have to fill in a in year application or will she still have a place till easter (as i was told she would in a previous conversation to the admissions even though we had turned it down)

You need to contact the LEA not the school.

School's don't deal with admissions.

So you need to ring the LEA and find out what schools have available places. Then you choose which of those you want to accept.

Your daughter doesn't have to be in school by Easter. You're allowed to home school her if you'd prefer.

As you turned down the offered school you have no school place and the LA is not allowed to "keep" one for you.
You do need to go to the school admission office at the Local Authority and ask for an in-year admission to the school you prefer. The probability is that they will say the school is full. You can then go to appeal for the school, but there is a high probability that any admission appeal will be subject to the infant class size regs at which you would have little or no chance of winning.
Having asked for a school place you can then ask them which schools do have places available. However most LAs have a maximum time limit on when you can take up any place (6 weeks is quite common) so that is also something that you need to establish from the admissions team if you are expecting your child to start school after Easter (when she will have to attend school or home educate as indigobell says).

thank you, got it clear in my head now, i need an in year admission the woman on the phone got me so confused: