Fewer parents winning appeals for school places

Fewer Leeds parents successfully challenged their child's school place last year, new figures show.

- by Harriet Sutton

And a teaching union warns families “are still at the mercy of a postcode lottery” when applying for their preferred school. New figures from the Department for Education show there were 1,062 admission appeals lodged relating to school entry in Leeds this year. Of these, 720 were heard and 105 were successful, accounting for 15 per cent of those heard. This was lower than a year earlier when 881 appeals were heard and 192 were succe