Appeals

APPEAL DATES AND INFORMATION

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Appeal Dates & Information Academic year 2024/2025

If you have not been offered a place at Dame Alice Owen’s School following an in-year application, the law entitles you to appeal to an Independent Appeal Panel. This panel is completely independent of the school and the Local Authority. In accordance with the 2022 School Admission Appeals Code Appeals, the admission authority and panels have elected for all admissions appeals to be held online.

If you wish to appeal, please use this link to complete your appeal online. Please do NOT use ANY other appeal
form or send your form to your local authority. It is highly recommended that you download the explanatory
booklet about appeals which you should read before you complete the appeal form. Booklet Link
You should include any evidence or supporting material with your appeal form and you MUST state the grounds of your appeal at the time you lodge your appeal form. Your appeal form will not be accepted unless you give the grounds of your appeal. You may appeal for more than one school.
Please note that the online form will ask you to download two utility bills dated in the last THREE months. If you do not have access to a scanner, please take two photographs using a mobile phone and upload the photographic files.
If you wish to contact the clerk email : [email protected]

Information about Secondary Transfer appeals will be posted on this website before 28 February 2025.

The timetable for ‘in-year’ appeals is as follows: –

Last day for lodging appeal forms 20 School days after the decision letter informing you that you had not been offered a place.

Invitation letter giving details about your hearing will be sent by the Clerk to the Independent
Appeal Panel at least 10 school days before the hearing. This MAY be emailed.

All in-year appeals will be heard within 30 school days of the appeal form being lodged.

Closing date for any additional supporting evidence should be sent  FIVE working days before your hearing. You are advised that additional paperwork received on the day of the appeal hearing will not be taken into account. Please email files to [email protected]
Please note that slightly different rules will apply for any summer transfer appeals into Year 7.

After the appeal you will receive a letter from the Clerk informing you of the decision of the independent appeal panel.  Due to the high number of appeals, an email is sent a few working days after your hearing with the decision of the panel. This is followed up around 10 working days later with a letter outlining the panels’ reasons.

Timetable for 6th form appeals
Last day for Lodging appeals 4pm on Monday 2nd September to guarantee that your appeal will be heard in early to mid-September.
You MUST state the reasons for your appeal on the online form and supply any documentary evidence at
this stage to include a copy of your result sheet.
Please note the timetable is very short to enable those appellants who win appeals to start as early into the
school year as possible.
The form will only be available from results day.
Click here for the 6th form appeal form. This link will only be available until 4 pm  on Monday 2nd September.

Appeal dates  – Sixth form appeals  will be heard during the month of September.