Help with Primary Admission Appeal!

[Kally38]

Apologies if you have already read this post today or answered to it but I can't seem to find where the post has gone!

In a nutshell, we have a primary admission appeal for our daughter to attend our local village school. She is currently in Year 2 and has been attending a school that is 30 minutes drive from where we live. We knew our first and second choice school were full so opted to send her to our third preference school which is where my sister in law teaches as a temporary measure until we bought a house in the village of our first choice school. We submitted the appeal in July as we due to complete in August. My son is currently attending the reception class of our local school.

The LA have not been forthcoming with information to help us with our appeal. I was told that all the information would be sent out prior to the hearing. After searching around on the Internet, I have found that the PAN for each year group is 21 and the net capacity is reported as 150 (with 30 temporary places within this figure). There are 6 teaching classes: reception, year 1, year 2, year 3/4, year 4/5 and year 5/6.

My question is that if the net capacity is reported as 150, shouldn't this equate to a PAN of 25 given there are 6 teaching groups? A PAN of 21 would only apply if there were 7 teaching groups?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The info should be sent at reasonable time before the hearing. But what is a reasonable time?

Production of evidence from the admission authority prior to the hearing
2.9 The admission authority must supply the clerk to the appeal panel with all relevant documents needed to conduct the hearing in a fair and transparent manner and in accordance with the specified timetable. This must include details of how the admission arrangements and the co-ordinated admissions scheme apply to the appellant’s application, the reasons for the decision to refuse admission and an explanation as to how admission of an additional child would cause prejudice to the provision of efficient education or efficient use of resources.
2.10 The clerk must send all the papers required for the hearing, including the names of the panel members, to both the parties and the members of the panel a reasonable time before the date of the hearing. This will allow opportunity for any objections regarding impartiality of panel members to be notified to the clerk. An appeal panel must decide whether any material not submitted by the specified deadline is to be considered, taking into account its significance and the effect of a possible need to adjourn the hearing.

www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/statutory/g00213244/school-admission-appeals-code-2012

Thank you for your replies. I have contacted the Local Authority statutory appeals service and they have received the paperwork and are hopeful they will get it out to me by the end of the week.

Please forgive my ignorance but the paperwork is being sent by the Local Authority statutory appeal service. Do they work for the LA or are they independent of them? I understand that the LA passes on their paperwork for the case to them and then this service sends it out to me.

They work for the LA. Probably part of their legal team.

Ah ok! I hadn't made the link with that. Many thanks for that bit of insight. I will wait to see if they do send out the paperwork by the end of the week then.