Don't judge me...moral dilemma

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Am green about this, just got dd's form for school starting next year. We are currently in catchment for nice school. All fine. However...we have just bought a house just outside the catchment. As we are doing it up, we haven't moved in yet and thus are not registered there yet. New catchment school not a good one. Should I be sneaky and send off form now before we move in then change address once we have an offer, or should I wait til we've moved in and send with new address. Any thoughts? Including 'get a life you sad old cow' Am I expending too much effort on this?!!

According to this councils are getting tougher. Was very to see that where i live in Richmond, they have uncovered 50 (up from 5 last year) cheaters. Am not judging you! but please consider the risk - apparently trhey mark the correspondence 'do not forward' so even if you have sent up forarding via post office, you will not get ( unless you bribe the postie and the new people moving inot your house

Yes having thought long and hard about it think I will be honest. We are only the other side of a road in view of missing the catchment, so fingers crossed. And the new catchment school is not great but in the scheme of things is not a terrible school. We have to move now, it has just worked out that way. So what will be will be.
Thanks for all the input.

You are at that address now, so you can put it down.

When you accept the place and your child starts I can't imagine for a minute they will ask when you moved - the school will just need the address. If schools do check it must be because they are horrendously oversubscribed and have a real problem with parents swinging the lead. Is this school so oversubscribed? Personally I think it should only matter where you live when you apply.

Sending council tax bill with application is a good idea.

Just saw you've decided to use new address - oh well, do what you think is best.

Are you sure that the school is over-subscribed? We worried like mad about getting DS into our chosen school as we are outside catchment, but actually the school was under-subscribed anyway.

And it's totally honest to apply with current address and then advise change of address when it happens.