I would like to request the following information, or as much of it that is held and available, from the Local Education Authority for each of the individual academic years: 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18.
1. The number of investigations carried out (or commissioned) by the LEA into suspected fraudulent school place applications.
Devon County Council does not hold this information
2. The number of school place offers withdrawn, broken down into primary and secondary places.
Devon County Council does not hold this information
3. The percentage of these withdrawals that led to appeals by parents.
Devon County Council does not hold this information
4. The percentage of these appeals won by parents.
Devon County Council does not hold this information
5. Details of the LEA’s policy for detecting fraudulent school place applications.
Please see the attached documentation available via the link below:
To clarify, page 8 and page 33 of this documentation reference fraudulent addresses and how we deal with them.
Plus, the below info, which is not limited to suspected fraudulent school place applications but to admission decisions in general.
6. The percentage of parents appealing against admissions decisions.
This information is collected by the Department for Education and made available as open data at this link https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-admission-appeals
7. The percentage of these appeals won by parents.”
This information is collected by the Department for Education and made available as open data at this link https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-admission-appeals