Appeal in year transfer

[wellingtondays]

My daughter has experienced harassment from a teenage boy within her school year , the police are involved the boy has since been expelled but his friendship are becoming intimidating towards my daughter,I’m in the process of trying to move my daughters schools but they are all full , I’ve applied but the application has been denied,I’m in the progress of appealing , awaiting my meeting , I have documents from police and doctors note to support my evidence, but the school is full ,do I have a chance of winning the appeal

@wellingtondays it depends how the panel view the strength of your case for needing a place against the strength of the school's case for being full. All you can do is express your case as clearly as possible, with evidence.

For the avoidance of doubt, it is not enough to say "My daughter has experienced harassment and the perpetrator's friends are becoming intimidating", because anyone could say that and it may or may not be true/exaggerated. You need to describe what form the harassment took, the impact on your daughter, and what you did about it. Include evidence, e.g. emails you exchanged with the school about the events, or police reports.

Also, why have you chosen to appeal to this particular school rather than another? Be prepared to justify that.

Are you certain that the expelled boy will not be moving to the appeal school? He will need to go somewhere, and the only school you know he won't be at is the one you want your daughter to move from.

I have a doctors letter , police documents , pastor manager meeting minutes, emails ,plus victim support letter .
The police have stated in documents it’s harassment .
the boy is currently doing home learning and I’ve been told will attend college along side this .
do you think this will be enough

The school I’m appealing for has my step daughter at , my daughter knows friends there are several help the transition ,my daughter is suffering with anxiety from this awful Ordeal which is stated in doctors letter .

@wellingtondays As the perpetrator has been expelled, you will need to provide evidence of his friends' behaviour too. The panel will want to know how the current school is dealing with that.

it sounds like a relatively strong case to me, but it will be weighed against the school's case for being full. If you don't already have that you will get it in good time before the hearing.

Thankyou for replying it’s all really helpful , The pastoral care managers i am in constant contact with, the Intimidation is Prolong looks , comments , blocking doorways and banging shoulders in corridors which I’ve been keeping them informed with along with police , my daughters been referred by the police for Victim support 1-1 sessions , I’m Obviously, only summarise the situation but it’s been awful ,I’m hoping with this , the police logs and doctors letter the appeals panel will understand , my daughter up until this happended has excellent attendance and she’s doing well academically so I’m not too concerned with how she will cope with learning at a new school

Just to add, the appeals panel may well understand and be sympathetic to your case, but will need to make their decision based on the evidence that you provide and that the school provides. It will depend on whether the detriment to your daughter of not getting a place at the school, is greater than the detriment to the school of taking another pupil over numbers.

It's important that you have all the written evidence and information from professionals, because the decision will be based on that.

You clearly have a chance of winning your appeal since your daughter is still being bullied at her current school and they have failed to stop it. However, that doesn't necessarily mean you will win. That depends on the strength of your evidence (the fact you've got the letters you describe is good, but it depends what those letters actually say), the strength of the school's case to refuse admission and, possibly, on the panel you get.

The School I wish to move my daughter to has said they would accept her immediately on a manage move but her current school will not agree as they said a manage move is for behavioural reasons and my dosighter doesn’t have behavioural issues so I’m hoping this might also go in my favour

@wellingtondays that is a killer argument - hopefully you have it in writing. It shows that the new school is willing to take one above PAN. Even if they made the MM offer on condition of swapping you in for a child going in the opposite direction, they will know that managed moves are not guaranteed to be successful so they'd be accepting risk of going over PAN.

Agree with @dippedin. If you've got that in writing (an email will do), you should definitely put it in evidence.

okay thankyou . Does anyone know if a school is being done by the school as they are an Academy if the Process is any quicker then a normal council appeal ? I’m at my wits end with worry by daughter isn’t sleeping through worry of having to face school every day

Yes I have a email from the head teacher replying to my email about the assistant head refusing to do the management stating he understands how Traumatic this is for my daughter and they want to help and to keep in Touch If the situation continues and they will look again about a manage move so I have that in writing if you think that will help

Ask the headteacher of your current school for the possibility of a 'managed move'. This would allow your daughter a trial period at another school. If she's well behaved/her attendance is good/didn't cause any issues, they would then take her on roll.

The new school are happy to expect my daughter but my daughters existing School refuse to agree as they said she doesn’t have Behavioural issues issues and my daughters reasons are not in the policy so it can’t be agreed her end

The statutory maximum timetable is the same for both. How long they actually take will come down to other factors like how busy they are.