BREACH – MAIN ROUND

Name of School Appealing for:   ALL SAINTS CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL

Published Admissions Number:  45

Number of applications received:   101

Number of Applications Offered   45

Infant Class Size Legislation Appeals

An Independent Appeal Panel must consider all the following matters when considering an appeal that would cause a breach of infant class size legislation.

a. whether the admission of an additional child/additional children would breach the infant class limit; and

b. whether the admission arrangements (including the area’s co-ordinated admission arrangements) complied with the mandatory requirements of the School Admissions Code and Part 3 of the School Admissions Code Part 3 of the SSFA Act 1998; and

c. whether the admission arrangements were correctly and impartially applied in the case(s) in question; and

d. whether the decision to refuse admission was one which a reasonable admission authority would have made in the circumstances of the case.

The Independent Appeal Panel may uphold the appeal where:

a. it finds that the admission of additional children would not breach the infant class size limit; or

b. it finds that the admission arrangements did not comply with admissions law or had not been correctly and impartially applied and the child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had complied or had been correctly and impartially applied; or

c. where it decides that the decision to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable admission authority would have made in the circumstances of the case.

I can confirm that none of the above points apply to any of the cases being considered by the appeal panel and that to admit additional pupils will breach the infant class size legislation.