Wokingham borough council has told parents that “all schools” are “heavily oversubscribed” and “there is no guarantee of an immediate school place”.
According to the Leeds city council website, there are no places at all for year 10 students and for year 9s only one academy has a handful of spaces.
Vale of Glamorgan and Solihull both warn that a child may not be able to leave their current school, with the Welsh council saying pupils should not be taken out of a school until a new place is confirmed.
When a parent wrote to Bromley council concerned about Labour’s policy, they were told that the “majority” of schools in the area are oversubscribed, and the application would go on a waiting list.
An admissions officer in Newcastle told the concerned mother that the only way students have succeeded in getting places previously “is by the parents winning an appeal after their application was refused”.
Newcastle is one of a number of councils that advises against moving secondary schools on the basis that it could “adversely affect…
