School Admissions Abuse

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School Admissions Abuse

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Every year primary and secondary school places are awarded to people who lie and/or commit fraud to obtain a place. Common frauds as identified by the Schools Adjudicator are: pretending a relatives address is your own; short term rentals or tenancy agreements; using an address owned by the parents but not their home address; swapping addresses with friends.
Every school place obtained by deception deprives another child with a legitimate claim to that place.
The government must take action including tackling fraud robustly by
-imposing fines and custodial sentences on parents found to be fraudulent or misleading even after term has started;
-where families move from properties they own to a short term let, the presumption should be that this was for the school place unless the family can evidence an alternative reason;
-sibling policies should be modified for families who move away from their short term let or other arrangement without good reason.

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