Appeals Timetable
The timetable for organising and hearing appeals is as follows:
- The deadline for lodging appeals is 20 days from the date of notification that the application was unsuccessful. This allows the appellant to prepare and lodge their written appeal to Clerk of admissions via [email protected]
- The appellants will receive at least 10 school days’ notice of their appeal hearing;
- We will ensure there are reasonable deadlines communicated for appellants to submit additional evidence, for admission authorities to submit their evidence, and for the clerk to send appeal papers to the panel and parties;
- Decision letters will be sent within five school days of the hearing wherever possible.
St Paul’s Admission authority ensures that appeals lodged by the appropriate deadlines are heard within the following timescales:
a) for applications made in the normal admissions round, (7) appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals;
b) for late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days from the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged;
c) for applications for in-year admissions (9), appeals must be heard within 30 school days of the appeal being lodged.
Any appeals submitted after the appropriate deadline will still be heard within 40 school days.
(7) Under the School Admissions (Admission Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements ) (England) Regulations 2012 an application is made in the ‘normal admissions round’ if it is not a ‘late application’ or an ‘in-year application’: see footnotes 8 and 9.
(8) An application is a ‘late’ application if it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group; it is submitted before the first day of the school term of the admission year; and a determination relating to the application is not made by an authority on or before the offer date. The ‘relevant age group’ is the age group at which pupils are or will normally be admitted to the school e.g. reception or year 7 ( Section 142 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998).
(9) An application is an ‘in-year’ application if it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group and it is submitted on or after the first day of the first school term of the admission year, or it is for the admission of a child to an age group other than a relevant age group.