kenyancowgirl wrote:
Nope. The appeals panel don't know where you placed the school you are appealing to on your CAF. Do put your schools on your CAF in your true order of preference - the equal preference system means that if you do not meet the criteria for the first one (such as not scoring/ranking highly enough) your second choice will be looked at as if it was the first. Don't try and play games with your choices on the CAF - the Council doesnt!! Have a read of the various appeals threads on here but just to get yourself prepared - you never know what may happen come March allocations day...
Do you know that your first statement is true for Warwickshire? In Essex, a copy of the original CAF is part of the standard paperwork pack for appeals, along with a copy of the letter detailing the school allocated.
Yes, a panel may wonder why the appeal that
they are looking at is for a school not at the top of the appellant's list, but most would just assume that another appeal was somewhere in the system for that or any other schools that were ranked higher than the allocated school, as it is the parents' legal right to appeal for any of those.