If you win your school appeal

[Sonicknuckles]

Does anyone know, if you won can you change your mind if your child has settled with the idea of going to the original offered school?

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Is the school place still open to you at the original school?

You will only win an appeal if they failed to follow their own procedures or policies so the chances are pretty slim anyway.

I am sure though, that people who win appeals do quite often then say my child has now settled into the school and doesn't want to move anymore. You just need to make sure your child is certain about it - they can;t then change their mind a few weeks later. Their bed will be made at that point.

Winning an appeal is an offer of a school place and the LA will ask you to confirm whether or not you want the place. If you do not then you stick with the offer that you have already accepted.

Yes we have accepted the school offered.
Why do they let you appeal if there's no chance of winning? Why don't they say you can only appeal under certain circumstances?
There is already 31 in the class and it's an ICS appeal. We've no chance.
My childs sibling is at the school and it's less than a mile away but we aren't catchment

"Bouledeneige

You will only win an appeal if they failed to follow their own procedures or policies so the chances are pretty slim anyway."

That's not true at all. Infant Class Size appeals (YrR-Yr2) can only be won if there is an error that was directly responsible for you not getting a place, and if that error had not been made, you would have got a place. Proving an error does not in itself win an appeal. The appeal will succeed if the published admissions arrangements do not comply with the Admissions Code and if they had, the child would have got a place. Finally, the appeal could win if the panel decides that the decision not to admit was unreasonable, but unreasonable means so perverse that any reasonable person making the same decision would have admitted the child. An example might be that every school in the locality except this one are multi-leveled and the child has mobility difficulties that make a single level essential.

KS2 appeals (Yr3-Yr6) are based on prejudice, so it is up to the parent to demonstrate that the place at this school is so important that it outweighs the difficulty the school will find in accommodating an extra child.

Why do they let you appeal if there's no chance of winning? Why don't they say you can only appeal under certain circumstances?

Because you have a right to appeal if you are refused a place.

It costs our schools £200 for every appeal - the LA convene an independent panel but to cover the costs of the administrative process and pay for the clerk it costs. Parents are no charged but schools are if the LA can't afford to fund it themselves or if academies use the service. That doesn't even take into account the presenting officers time to prepare and present the case for the school.

The law states you have the right to appeal, even if you have complete no chance of winning, the school have to spend time going through the process.
In the case of academies, they may have to pay the local authority to hear the appeal.
It's madness, stay on the waiting list and unless you think the local authority did something wrong that meant you should have got the place, suck it up!