Ok I know this is an unusual situation, but I am at my wits end and could use some advice please.
My neice is coming to live with us in July. She currently lives in London with grandparents and we live in the midlands. Due to various circumstances she could be considered a priority 1a child (previously looked after and now subject to residence order) and the LEA area aware of this.
She is due to start secondary in September. The move was agreed at Christmas so too late for the ordinary deadline. Her local LEA won't allow changes to applications until March so grandparents waited until March 3 after school place notifications to fill out their change of preference forms to apply for schools local to us.
Unfortunately we are now stuck. All of the applications were done on paper rather than online. Her local LEA acknowledged receipt of everything but won't pass anything over to our local LEA and our local LEA say it's down to her grandparents to keep calling their LEA to deal. The problem is they won't, reasons given include that it's too complex to deal with because no supervisors are available. Mostly they just refuse to speak to the grandparents.
End of term will come soon enough and I fear we won't have got anywhere. We've been trying 2 months so far. As far as I am aware everything stops for the school hols so after that it'll be too late.
We are applying for a child arrangements order to gain parental responsibility and formalise the move but until that time the grandparents, my parents, are stuck. My dad has been ill in hospital for months.