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  1. So, now we have to Appeal – Part Four

    So, now we have to Appeal – Part Four

     

    Mysie Weir (not her real name) has been volunteering with school admissions appeal panels for 10 years, regularly as Chairman. Like all serving panel members, she undergoes training at least once a year. Unlike most serving panel members, she is also a professional writer, editor and musician.

    In the county for which I chair Admission Appeals, the appeals manager links up with her peers in other local authorities to share good practice and compare circumstances in their respective counties. 

    So, I’m not just talking about my own experiences in my own county here – I am able to include what she has learned by talking to other authorities, some...

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  2. So, now we have to Appeal – Part Three

    So, now we have to Appeal – Part Three

    Mysie Weir (not her real name) has been volunteering with school admissions appeal panels for 10 years, regularly as Chairman. Like all serving panel members, she undergoes training at least once a year. Unlike most serving panel members, she is also a professional writer, editor and musician.

    Stage One: The Chairman of the panel will ask the school to explain their case. There shouldn’t be any big surprises there, if you’ve read the Statement of Case. There will be talk of admissions criteria, Published Admission Numbers, and no doubt the ‘efficient use of resources’.

    Once that’s done, it’s for the Panel – and you, if you feel able – to question the Presenting Officer (and Witness if...

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  3. So, now we have to Appeal – Part Two

    So, now we have to Appeal – Part Two

    Mysie Weir (not her real name) has been volunteering with school admissions appeal panels for 10 years, regularly as Chairman. Like all serving panel members, she undergoes training at least once a year. Unlike most serving panel members, she is also a professional writer, editor and musician.

    Preparing

    I’m going to call you ‘parents’ in this article. But you might be a guardian, or grandparent, or uncle, or even a neighbour or a friend. 

    In my experience, the more the parents can describe the reality of life for their child – and the consequences they foresee should he or she be condemned to go to another school, or...

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  4. So, now we have to Appeal – Part One

    So, now we have to Appeal – Part One

    Mysie Weir (not her real name) has been volunteering with school admissions appeal panels for 10 years, regularly as Chairman. Like all serving panel members, she undergoes training at least once a year. Unlike most serving panel members, she is also a professional writer, editor and musician.

    Don’t Panic

    The Appeals process is designed to allow some exceptions to the rules on admitting pupils to their desired school. The Appeal Panel is there to balance the school’s difficulties caused by admitting her child, against the difficulties your child would experience by not getting in. The legal jargon for those difficulties is ‘prejudice’.

    Panel members are trained volunteers, and...

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