Waiting lists management

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Hi all

We're on the border of two local councils who clearly manage waiting lists very differently.

In a council where each school manages its own in-year waiting list for each year group, is the school still held to the standard admissions criteria for dealing with the list? I.e., do the normal things like siblings and distance determine the order of the list, or do they now only provide a guide and the school has more discretion?

I'm just wondering what the reason is to devolve the management to each school for in-year, if the criteria remain exactly as per normal admissions? The neighbouring council manages in-year waiting lists for all the schools in its borough, who have no visibility of their own waiting lists apparently. I assume each approach "works" for the council and schools...

OK, got it, thank you. We do definitely have one council borough here where "all schools" manage their own waiting lists but I don't know what happens behind the scenes with the council admission authority or otherwise. Thanks!

Since last September LA schools can now choose whether to hand over in-year admissions to the LA, assuming the LA are willing. They can't be forced to hand over the in-year admissions if they prefer to do it themselves, but they must still follow the admission criteria.

And just to confuse matters even further we will in all likelyhood in 2015 be going back in 2015 to all maintained schools having all the admissions being done by the LA.