Admission to secondary school booklet 2014-15 - South ...

In-year admissionsApplications during the school year2015/2016 (in-year admissions)If you move into the local area during the schoolyear 2015/2016 or you are already resident inSouth Gloucestershire and wish to move yourchild to another school, you will need to completethe South Gloucestershire in-year applicationform. The form can be used for application toany school within the South GloucestershireCouncil area and is available at www.southglos.gov/admissions. Alternatively, you may contactindividual schools or South GloucestershireCouncil on 01454 868008.For in-year admissions, completed applicationforms should be returned direct to the individualschool/academy/foundation trust schoolconcerned. The application form should bereturned to the school/academy/foundation trustschool named as the first preference. On receiptof an in-year application, schools/academies/foundation trust schools will notify the localauthority of both the application and its outcome.Academies and foundation trust schools are theirown admissions authorities. Own admissionauthority schools may also require parents/carersto complete a supplementary information form toenable the school to collect additional informationin order to apply their over-subscription criteria.Please Note:Where a school is unable to offer a place andanother school is named as a lower preference onthe application form, the form will be forwardedto the lower preference school within five schooldays.In-year applications for South Gloucestershiresecondary schools can be made for any yeargroup. You may express a preference for aparticular school or schools. Your application willbe considered against the admission criteria. Theadmission criteria for community and voluntarycontrolled schools are set out in the “How areplaces allocated” section. Please refer to the“Admission to South Gloucestershire academies,foundation trust schools, and university technicalcolleges” section for details of individualadmission policies.Offers of a school place (in-yearadmissions)Where a parent/carer has been offered a place fortheir child in a community or voluntary controlledschool, they will be expected to take up theoffered place within four school weeks otherwisethe offer of a place may be withdrawn.Fair access for children admittedoutside the normal admissionsroundSouth Gloucestershire Council has a Fair AccessProtocol which provides for children admitted toschool outside the normal admissions round. Theprotocol exists to ensure that access to educationis secured quickly for children who do not havea school place and that all schools take their fairshare of vulnerable children or those who arehard to place. The protocol will be used to placechildren during the school year and not at thebeginning of the school year as part of the mainadmission round. The majority of children willbe admitted to school under normal admissionprocedures.The protocol applies to the following groups ofchildren:❚ children from the criminal justice system orPupil Referral Units who need to be reintegratedinto mainstream education;❚ children who have been out of education fortwo months or more;❚ children of Gypsies, Roma, Travellers, refugeesand asylum seekers;❚ children who are homeless;❚ children with unsupportive family backgroundsfor whom a place has not been sought;In-year admissions✆ 01454 868008 cis@southglos.gov.uk23