Secondary school appeal form

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Hi,
We're planning on appealing because our daughter didn't get any of the preferred schools. On the appeal form, they are asking us to list all the schools that we applied for. Can they ask this information? Can we leave it blank or say prefer not to disclose? I thought the process would be independent and we will not need to disclose this. We are planning on appealing to all schools to increase the chances of getting a place.
Many thanks for reading.

@PatriciaHolm This is a really interesting discussion, and one that really occupied my brain two years ago when we went through this. I believe disclosing school applied for was voluntary, and we didn't. Nor should it matter - the school we were allocated was not a school we wanted, it was a 'safe choice' to avoid two even worse schools which are always undersubscribed, lots of police involvement, not great results, bad local reputation etc. When it came to the oral appeal hearing, we did however have an argument ready in case we were asked about the allocated school. Inbetween submitting our choices and the appeal, my son had a number of assessments (dyslexia, dyspraxia), which showed a range of needs best treated through an OT. The only childrens' OT in the area (who he had worked with previously) is near the school we were appealing for. In case we would be asked about why we put allocated school on our list, my argument would have been that, since submitting our choices, it has now emerged that the school is not suitable any more. This was just a backup argument though, and we didn't need to use it. A bit of spin-doctoring :-)!