Moving house in summer holidays

[Olivia93]

We moving house in august and i have 4 children aged 9,7,4 and 1 as we moving on school holidays and school will be closed. i dont want my kids to not have a school place in yhe area and i was thinking to use my mum adress who lived in the same city we moving to and to apply for school place for my girls . I want to know if its a possible for me to use my mum adresses to get my girls school place while we still in our current adress or i just have to wait till we moved and apply? Anyone help please

No, the address needs to be the children's home.

You have 2 choices -

• apply now using your current address; if spaces exist they must be given to you. Normally you would have to take them up within a couple of weeks, but you might be able to negotiate a sept start now.

If there are no spaces you can go on waiting lists and then update the address as soon as you move.

• apply as soon as you have a provable address in the new area.

You can't apply from an address you don't live in.

Thank you patricia at the momemt we are in derby and we moving to london and is that possible for me to apply using our current adress please?

We are going to be moving in august also, I called school admissions for the area and asked what I needed to do , they advised the in year school transfer form and advised to put down where we should be moving and reasons for school choice, they advised it's easier to cancel a place and until my boy actually starts at new school they keep both places open for the child in question. Good luck !, This has caused more sleepless nights than I thought as the closest school to us is in special measures which I didn't realise and now I've picked an over subscribed school which is marked as outstanding so keeping fingers crossed as it's only slightly further than the special measures school !

I’ve done this using a family members address to secure an in year place for Dd1. LA have accepted it, as well as the school. Although Dd2 already has a place to start reception so I’m not sure if they bent the rules a little to accommodate me.