The team produces statements of case and provides a presenting officer to defend admission appeals for community and voluntary controlled schools and provides advice and support to parents and schools with all aspects of the admissions process.
The Service Manager is the chair of the Children Missing Education Panel and the team maintains the database of children missing education, undertakes relevant casework and tracks off roll pupils.
The team also produces pupils forecasts to plan pupil places for the future in line with the Council's statutory duty to provide a school place for every child in the borough and manages the statutory process to make school organisation changes and submits the annual SCAP (School Capacity) return.