Joining a school as a 'guest' whilst waiting for a permanent place?

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction of how to approach this issue.

My family member is moving into my local area in a couple of weeks. My DS attends a local school (school A) and I am available for all of his school runs. If my relative's DC can get into this school, I would be very happy for the DC to tag along with us and for me to essentially provide 'wrap around care'.

The problem is that there currently isn't a space in the year group required. However, when viewing a different local school (school B) yesterday they met another mother who is moving her child from the required year group at School A to School B. The issue is that this move will not happen until September, leaving the situation at School A unchanged until the new school year, which would not help for the few remaining weeks of the summer term.

Is there a way of School A accommodating a child for 2 or 3 weeks ahead of a permanent place becoming available? I've heard mention of 'guest status', but the school say they've never done it. I understand that class sizes may be an issue, but I was wondering if it may be possible to spend the short time remaining in this year in a class a year above or below the required year group, if there is space there?

I know it's a bit of a niche query, but I'm hoping that somebody may have some idea of where to start / what to google to hopefully find a solution to this! Thanks

Even someone is meant to leave from schoolA, how can you be certain that your family member's dc gets the place? Especially 2+ months before September?

I know that my family member is the only one on the waiting list for that year group. The school don't know yet about the space opening up, although they will soon, but when they do I presume the September place will be offered to the family member.

I realise that it's all a bit of a stretch, but it would make things infinitely easier if we could make this work and it seems daft for it to not work for the sake of a couple of weeks!

There is not a vacancy until September so that is when they will be able to start (that is if someone doesn't nip in and leapfrog your family member to the number 1 position - if they were to live
nearer for example).

No, there won't be any scope to do this I'm afraid - there isn't a space in the class for this academic year, and the school/admissions authorities can't be sure there will be until the child in question actually leaves - something might change that means they end up staying; they may not even have given official notice yet.

Plus as Hersetta says, it's not their space to take until that point. Even if they are first on the list now, it could be that someone else moves in next to the school wanting a place in that year, and the admissions authority can't allocate the space until they are sure it is vacant.

Thanks for your responses. I knew I was probably overreaching a bit, it's just so frustrating that it's so close to being perfect but it won't work out that way and it seems like there should be something that could be done. Thanks anyway, though