Am I missing something obvious, or is moving from one education authority to another a Catch 22 nightmare? My daughter will finish primary school in Wandsworth in summer 2013. I want to move to south west Surrey in time for her to start at a specific secondary school down there in Autumn 2013. I have spoken to everyone in both boroughs about the process for applying to a school to give me reasonable time to make all the major changes in my life, and the general consensus/law (!) seems to be that you can't apply for a school until you live in the area (which of course won't be till end of July, as she doesn't finish at her London primary till then). Which would give me 2 months, 9 months late to apply for her to start at that school in September 2013. Not much wriggle room frankly.
So that's not been thought-through has it.
So I've got to make the enormous leap of putting my Wandsworth house on the market, hoping it will sell, before then finding and buying a house in south west Surrey, before being able to make an application for my daughter to go to that new school. With no guarantee she'll get in there. And I don't want her to go anywhere else. If she couldn't go to that school, frankly, we'd want to stay in London.
She is statemented, which apparently gives her a virtual 'passport' to get into whichever school she wants, but still .... surely there should be some sort of official process that accommodates families that are moving into another area. Or AIBU?
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bonceaswell · 20/11/2012 19:35
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