We are moving back to the UK next summer and need to enroll my kid in school. We have contacted the local authority regarding this and they have not been very forthcoming with useful information just read the website.
Basically our kid would start high school next September, we have a school in mind and we have an appointment to visit the school.
We have been told outright by the Local Education Authority that we cannot apply until the kids are resident and we would have to go through an appeals process to get them in any school, probably not the school we want.
We thought about pulling out of school earlier but that would be tough given the kid would have to start a primary school mid year on their last year in a primary school. We thought about just renting a place earlier as well just to have a residential address, but as the kid would not be in primary school the LEA would know we are not resident yet.
Has anyone else experienced this and how did you go about getting into school?
