School admission - reporting parents

[doubletrouble9]

Hi
Anyone know how you would go about prompting the council to do an investigation into addresses on admission forms?
Some people say they had to produce evidence because a parent was suspected, the admission lady was very cagey about it as clearly they didn't want the hassle of an investigation.
thanks in advance

Fair enough Tiggy - presumably each LA would make clear if the qualifying date was the closing date for applications, the date school allocation was announced etc and a move after that would be ok?

I honestly can't believe that people aren't being mire sympathetic to the OP.

If she had posted that she'd lied to get a place and was hoping no one reported her or noticed her in her car at drop off, she would have got loads of "I hope they catch you, you evil witch" etc etc.

Anyway ho hum. Hopefully you'll get a place from the waiting list OP.

Our LA is very clear that you must declare if you move before allocation day.

People are sympathetic but pointing out OP can't just get the whole class checked is just being realistic.

We moved house after the allocation date. Genuine move closer to the school not further away. I passed on our new address to our local LEA but they were not interested to the extend that all letters from the school kept going to the old address. Guess it depends where you live.

OP- if you really believe someone has lied perhaps you could speak to your LEA and ask for the applications and addresses to be double checked...
It may also be worth talking to the HT. I know that admissions are done by the council but one of the schools in our area has a HT who literally knocks on doors to deliver information letters about starting school to check people really live where they say they do. If this is a village school it may not be so easy for those who cheat on their application form to hide for very long.

If the OP knew that someone had made a fraudulent application or had a reasonable suspicion that they had, then the OP would get sympathy on here TeaAndALemonTart. But that isn't what she is doing.

She's decided that on the balance of probability, someone probably has made a fraudulent application and is going to randomly pick a name off the class list to get them investigated. Presumably putting them under the stress of knowing they are being investigated and may lose their school place. I assume that would be stressful even if you know you haven't applied fraudulently.

That seems like a particularly unpleasant thing to do IMO.

If someone at our LEA were to investigate my applications I would not get my knickers in a twist about it as it would not be possible to prove fraud that I did not commit.

If you live where you say you live than why get stressed? Having said that I would not pick a random name. I would voice my concerns to the LEA and ask them to double check their paperwork. If a place gets withdrawn than that is awful for the DC involved but I think it is better for it to happen before the beginning of the year than after friendships at the school have been established.

I would also be happy for someone to knock on my door to establish I do indeed live here and have done for 13 years. I'd rather have that than people deliberately lying and other children losing out as a consequence.

Me too. I would be happy and reassured that they were checking properly.