Feedback from all areas - see 1st post to copy feedback form
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:23 pm
If you have had an appeal in the last year or so, would you please consider posting a report here?
All contributions welcome - even more so if you are in an area where not much local information gets posted.
This could prove to be an invaluable resource for other parents in future.
If your appeal has yet to take place, please would you consider posting a report at the appropriate time?
Thank you!
All contributions welcome - even more so if you are in an area where not much local information gets posted.
This could prove to be an invaluable resource for other parents in future.
If your appeal has yet to take place, please would you consider posting a report at the appropriate time?
Thank you!
- How to complete the form:
• It's not necessary to answer every question, but the more information the better!
• If a question is not applicable in your situation, or you do not know the answer, please just write "n/a" (not applicable) or "not known".
• Please copy and paste into your own post everything between the dotted lines (exactly as it appears below), and fill in your responses in the gaps provided.
Then preview to check everything looks all right. The questions should now appear in blue. Finally hit 'submit'.
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[color=blue]• [b]1. Local Authority area in which the appeal took place.[/b][/color]
[u]Please write your answer in the space below[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]2. What you were appealing against?[/b] [i](a) non-qualification only? (b) oversubscription only? (c) both non-qualification and oversubscription? (d) or something else?[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]3a. Name of school you were appealing for (optional - but it would be of interest!)[/b]:[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]3b. Year group being appealed for[/b] ([i]e.g. Y7 entry[/i]):[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]4. Was this a school where the governors are the admission authority?[/b] [i](This means it's an academy, foundation or voluntary aided school)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]5. Approx. date of appeal hearing[/b]:[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]6. How many days in advance of the hearing, including weekends, did you receive the case papers?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]7a[/b]. Either: [b]Where was the appeal held, if you had to attend a particular location?[/b] [i](e.g. council offices)[/i] [/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]7b[/b]. Or: [b]How was the appeal held during covid-19? [/b] [i](e.g. Zoom, or Microsoft Teams, or written submissions only)[/i] [b]and were there any particular problems using this way of conducting the hearing?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]8a. Did your individual hearing start more or less on time?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]8b. If not, how late was it in starting?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]9. Do you know what sort of independent appeal panel you had?[/b] For example:
(a) A panel appointed by the Local Authority? - [i]because it's dealing with a community school for which the LA is the admission authority.[/i]
(b) A panel appointed by the school? - [i] because it's an academy, foundation or VA school where the governors are the admission authority.[/i]
(c) A Local Authority appointed panel acting at the request of the school? - [i]because it's an academy, foundation or VA school where the governors are the admission authority, and they 'hired' a panel from the LA.[/i]
(d) Some other panel acting at the request of the school? - [i]because it's an academy, foundation or VA school where the governors are the admission authority, and they 'hired' a panel not from the LA but from a commercial organisation, charity, or some other body.[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]10. Who was on the panel?[/b]
[i](if you were told, e.g. a retired teacher, a businessman, and school governor - no names, please.)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]11. Was there a group hearing?[/b]
[i](This is where stage 1 - the LA or school case - is presented to [b]all[/b] the parents as a group)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]12. Did the appeal follow the recommended order of business?[/b] This is as follows:
[i](a) the case for the admission authority;
(b) questioning by the appellants and panel
(c) the case for the appellants;
(d) questioning by the admission authority and panel;
(e) summing up by the admission authority; and
(f) summing up by the appellants.[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]13a. Had your case already been considered by a Review Panel?[/b]
[i](Sometimes applies to non-qualification cases)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]13b. If so, were you told that, because your case had already been reviewed, the only issue for the appeal panel was whether the review had been conducted properly?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]14. What questions were you asked about your case?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]15. What were the panel like?[/b]
[i](e.g. Were they friendly? polite? considerate?)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]16. As far as you know, was the representative of the admission authority left alone with the panel at any point in time?[/b] [i](In a face to face hearing it's acceptable for the representative to be waiting [u]outside[/u] the room, but he/she must not be already [u]in[/u] the room with the panel when you arrive, or remain [u]in[/u] the room with the panel when you leave.)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]17. Were you asked at the end of the hearing whether you had had sufficient time to state your case[/b] [i](or words to that effect)[/i]?[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]18. Did you feel rushed?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]19. How long did the hearing last?[/b]
[i](excluding the group hearing, if there was one)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]20. Were you told you could telephone for the decision[/b] [i](most authorities do not allow this, although some do)[/i]?[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]21. If you have the result, was your appeal successful?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]22. How long did you have to wait for the decision, including weekends[/b]?[/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]23. Success rates for appeals for this school[/b] [i](if known)[/i]:
(a) [b]on this occasion[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=#0000BF](b)in previous years[/b][/color]
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[color=blue]• [b]24. Any other comments or information which might be helpful to other parents?[/b][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
[color=blue]• [b]25. If you have a separate thread with further information about your appeal, could you provide a link here?[/b]
[i](Moderators will be happy to provide a link if asked to do so in your other thread.)[/i][/color]
[u]Answer[/u]:
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