'reasonable distance' from home to school

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Could anyone tell me what distance is classed as a 'reasonable distance' (for a 6 year old )from a child's home when the LEA is deciding on allocating a school place. We are moving into a city that has a lot of oversubscribed schools in the area and was wondering how far the LEA could send us and still be classed as being within a reasonable distance. Many thanks for any help offered.

As far as admissions are concerned, there isn't really any such thing as a "reasonable distance". They can send your child pretty much anywhere. However, they will have to provide free transport if it is more than 2 miles away by the shortest safe walking route.

Just to clarify a little, the regulations refer to a "reasonable distance" in some cases (e.g. moving into an area where admitting your child would push the class size over 30) but don't actually define what this means. It is up to the Authority to work that out. However, if they allocate your child to a school which is miles away, you should appeal and try to persuade the appeal panel that the Authority has made a mistake in not regarding your child as an "excepted child".

thanks prh47bridge for your help. I wonder if our parents had quite so much stress and concern when they were finding schools for us!!

there is a travelling time definition .I think its an hour and a quarter each way.Will check if that's for everywhere or just our LEA