It may have left you with the impression of regulation, but if the
Council is merely administering the process, part of that process may be
testing entitlement.
I don't think Councils offer a specific regulatory service for the
aggrieved third party who want somebody else's place withdrawn. In my
experience, such people use FOI requests and then go to the Local
Government Ombudsman. As far as I know, there is not a specific Council
function for dealing with those issues (therefore, the Council may not
be the regulator).
How many times did I hedge my bets in there?
Tim
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at 10:02:57 on Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Tim Turner <[log in to unmask]>
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>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child's place to be withdrawn.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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