Admissions
- For applications in the normal admissions round you should use the application form provided by your home local authority (regardless of which local authority the school is in). You can use this form to express your preference for a minimum of 3 state-funded schools, in rank order.
- The SEN department of your Local Authority will then consult the school to establish if we are able to meet the need and can be named in the child’s EHCP.
Aims
- Explain how to apply for a place at the school
- Explain how to appeal against a decision not to offer your child a place
Definitions
- The normal admissions round is the period during which parents can apply for state-funded school places at the school’s normal point of entry, using the common application form provided by their home local authority.
- Discussions at the annual review of the child’s Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) and visits to Braidwood should have taken place before the normal admission round began.
- Your Local Authority will then consult the school to establish whether we are able to meet the young person’s needs and whether it is appropriate to name Braidwood in the child’s EHCP.
How to apply
For applications in the normal admissions round you should use the application form provided by your home local authority (regardless of which local authority the school is in). You can use this form to express your preference for a minimum of 3 state-funded schools, in rank order. The SEN department of your Local Authority will then consult the school to establish if we are able to meet the need and can be named in the child’s EHCP.
In-year admissions
- Parents can apply for a place for their child at any time outside the normal admissions round through their Local Authority’s SEND department, who will consult with the school as to whether we can meet their needs.
- If there are no spaces available at the time of your application, your child’s name will be added to a waiting list for the relevant year group. When a space becomes available, it will be filled by one of the pupils on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed in section 6.1 of this policy. Priority will not be given to children on the basis that they have been on the waiting list the longest.
Appeals
If your child’s application for a place at the school is unsuccessful, you will be informed why admission was refused and given information about the process for hearing appeals. If you wish to appeal, you must contact your Local Authority SEN department.
Requests for admission outside the normal age group
Parents are entitled to request a place for their child outside of their normal age group. Decisions on requests for admission outside the normal age group will be made on the basis of the circumstances of each case and in the best interests of the child concerned. In accordance with the School Admissions Code, this will include taking account of:
- The child’s Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP)
- Parents’ views
- Information about the child’s academic, social and emotional development
- Where relevant, their medical history and the views of a medical professional
- Whether they have previously been educated out of their normal age group
- Whether they may naturally have fallen into a lower age group if it were not for being born prematurely
- The head teacher’s view
Wherever possible, requests for admission outside a child’s normal age group will be processed as part of the main admissions round. They will be considered on the basis of the admission arrangements laid out in this policy, including the oversubscription criteria listed in section 6. Applications will not be treated as a lower priority if parents have made a request for a child to be admitted outside the normal age group.
Parents will always be informed of the reasons for any decision on the year group a child should be admitted to. Parents do not have a right to appeal if they are offered a place at the school, but it is not in their preferred age group.
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