In-year ICS Appeal - what is a reasonable distance?!

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Does anyone have any experience of in-year ICS appeals? I'm hoping DD should have qualified as an excepted pupil under the new regs as the school we've been offered is 2.3 miles away. Anyone able to shed any light?

On the face of it, a 2.3m distance doesn't seem something that would blast through an ICS appeal... Unless you have a mountain, unbridged abyss or sea in that 2.3m I don't think you have a chance. Sorry.

I was referring to section 2.15 e) children who move into the area outside the normal admissions round for whom there is no other available school within reasonable distance; here which I got to from the Department of Education site (Current codes). Is that not yet effective then? It does say that it comes into force on 1 February 2012 and applies with immediate effect.

No none of those quip but I don't drive & have another child, who'll barely be 4, to get back to a different school 5 mins later. I know we're unlikely to succeed either way but wanted to check if this was a better basis for our appeal than the 'reasonableness' argument

And as my youngest's school is close to home she'll effectively have almost a 5 mile trip to get to school

That was also a category of excepted children under the old Admissions Code but 2.3 miles is nowhere near enough to class as an unreasonable distance. A journey of an hour each way is regarded as reasonable.

If it is more than 2 miles by the shortest walking route your child will qualify for free transport until he/she reaches 8 years of age.

You are actually probably in the worst possible position for not being sure under what admission code you should be operating. In my opinion the 2012 code is only appropriate for the sept 2013 intake, so I think it should be the 2009 /10 admission code but I can understand why people might think that an in-year admission will be on the latest code.
Either way using either code I do not believe, unless you get a very very generous appeal panel, that you will win a place by saying 2.3 miles is unreasonable. There is no doubt that much greater distances have been considered appropriate.

Thanks ladies, looks like that's a bit of a non-starter then!