Will I able to win an appeal???

[Sandra1312]

Hi. Today we got result for reception class application. We didn't get our first choice. We don't live in the parish of the school , and we go another local Anglican church, but we live just 3 mins away from that school. We meet all the other criteria. My DS is baptised, we regularly go to church for more than 2 years. We do some voluntary work there. I know few people who is in our category but live much further than we are and they took place. I should mention that they go to nursery in the same school. But we didn't apply for a nursery place there. Anyway, admissions criteria stated that going to nursery doesn't affect reception class application. So, I don't know why they didn't accept us. Why they discriminate against our child. We are going to appeal. Do we have chance to win? Should we hire lawyer or someone else to help us?

Yes, something is not quite right here.

You need urgently to get confirmation of what category your child was placed in. If it was not in category E, you need to check whether this was because you failed to provide the necessary documents or because there has been an error (such as losing or overlooking the evidence you submitted).

SchoolsNightmare, they wrote in the letter that 1 place they gave to child with special needs, so he will be above everyone- under A. In total 30 places. Tomorrow I am going to the school to find out in which catgory we are.

prh47bridge, we provided all required documents, baptism certificate, supplimentary form filled by vicar (I have got copy of that form).
Thank you for advice, I will contact LA.

We contacted LA, they said that we should contact the school directly. Tomorrow morning will go there.