Admissions Experts - Please Advise

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We moved home in mid Nov to be nearer our chosen 1st choice school. I notified the admissions team who originally handled the secondary school application, as per process.
Once the signed tenancy agreement was supplied (29th November) Merton Admissions emailed to say this had been passed onto Kingston Admissions.
My son's school place is not showing online - no result for his scondary school and is still showing the original application.

I have emailed Kingston Admissions and plan to call them on Monday morning (If I'm lucky to get through).
Is there any other useful advice I may need, as I was not instructed to do anything further for the application.
Extremely upset and worried, hoping my son doesn't just get given any old school left with a space.
Thanks in advance.
Susie

As you missed the first round deadline of the 31st October your application will be dealt with as a late application, applications for second round run until 31st March with an offer made on the 24th April.

I do not know all the details, but my friend who changed address also in November told me her results will come by post on Monday, they are not available on line. Hopefully this is the case with you as well.

“As you missed the first round deadline of the 31st October your application will be dealt with as a late application, “

Really? But she didn’t miss the deadline, she applied on time, and only changed adress, not the list of schools.

My LA says quite clearly they would use the first addrsss submitted on time for the first round. Therefore someone moving to be in a better location within the catchment wouldn’t get that second address considered until the second allocation round, if that is necessary. Therefore check the rules of your LA on line and it should say what round your old address is used for (the one before 31 October) and what round your new address will be used for. You should, if your rules are the same, have heard something though.

Hello, I have had exactly the same scenario, albeit in a different London borough, and have just posted in the Problems with Offers thread. We also changed address, but before the deadline in December, which theoretically allows us to be offered on 1st March as we only changed address, not preferences.
We are nowhwere to be found on eadmissions and have had no emails/texts etc. although all the applications were done online, including the change of address documentation, which was accepted for processing by the new LA.
We did however get an offer letter in the post for one of my twins on Saturday and are hoping to get a letter for the other on Monday. It looks therefore as though changing address has knocked us off the online system completely. Although the one who didn't get a letter (yet) is gutted it served to reassure us that the move was accepted and we were offered in the first round, as per policy.
I completely understand how upsetting it is when you expect to get an online response and nobody warned us that we wouldn't, but perhaps your situation is just like ours and the letter is literally in the post?
Fingers crossed for you!

You need to chase this up with Merton, not Kingston. You applied to Merton so they should come up with an offer. You changed address before the deadline for doing so. You should therefore have been treated as an on time applicant. It may be that, as with meandthem, you will receive something in the post. If not, chase Merton. If they say you were treated as a late applicant, complain loudly. You weren't. If that doesn't get you anywhere, come back here for advice on the next steps.

On the face of what you have said, I would agree with PRH that this needs following up with Merton. It is not clear from your post whether you have had any offer of a school. If not that is even more indication that you have been treated as a late application rather than on-time

The deadline for address changes in my LA is 31 October. Not 30 November. LAs seem to have different dates.

The deadline for all secondary school applications being "on-time" is 31st October however all LAs allow a "breathing period" for people who are moving house.The final date for Merton Council to accept as being on time is 12th December, so on the face of it there is no reason why the changes should not have been accepted.