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Sorry if posting in the wrong area. Why would a school have a group appeal before going into individual appeals? And surely all people appealing for x school would have the same process? Or is the group appeal a way of filtering out cases deemed as not strong enough? Only asking as I see that the school I am appealing for had a group appeal we were not invited to? Slightly confused!

Clawhit wrote:Sorry if posting in the wrong area. Why would a school have a group appeal before going into individual appeals?

Because it's the best way of organising a multiple appeal.
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A question about the school case need only be asked once at a group hearing.
The alternative would be for it to be asked repeatedly (perhaps 20, 30, 40 times) at individual hearings.

And surely all people appealing for x school would have the same process?

Yes - all timely appellants would have been treated in the same way.

Or is the group appeal a way of filtering out cases deemed as not strong enough?

Only the case for the admission authority is discussed at the group hearing.

Only asking as I see that the school I am appealing for had a group appeal we were not invited to? Slightly confused!

You need to pursue this and ask why.

Thank you for explaining Etienne, KCC have assured me that there wasn’t a group hearing last week which is in contrary to what someone has put on this forum so for now I’ll have to go with that information, just a bit strange and definitely made me panic.