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at 10:02:57 on Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Tim Turner <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>Is there a regulator at all? If there is, who is to say that it is the
>Council?
>
>When there is an appeal about a refusal to admit a child to the
>preferred school, the appeal is handled by an independent panel which is
>explicitly separate from the Local Authority - to the extent that the
>Appeals Code of Practice makes clear that information generated by the
>panel is not subject to FOI.
But I don't think that panel hears "appeals" where a busybody wants a
child's place to be withdrawn. It's about parents who *didn't* get in
wanting that decision reconsidered.
>So I think it's quite possible that admissions are not "regulated" by
>the Council at all
I think there are. Somewhere I have an extremely snotty letter from the
Council demanding that I prove [1] my daughter was "entitled" to a place
at the local school - on the grounds [effectively] that she might be an
illegal immigrant [2]. That left me with the impression that they were
very much "policing" the admissions process.
[1] By sending a copy of a passport etc. Luckily she's British!
[2] Which she wasn't. Although I thought children of illegal immigrants
were allowed to go to school (the resources required is certainly a
subject of much concern near one immigrant reception centre I know of)
so I've never really understood what their potential issue was.
--
Roland Perry
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