Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to publish what information the Department holds on how long children who are housed out of borough have to wait for a school place at their new address by local authority area for each of the last three years.
When a family moves house and requests a transfer for their child to a different school near their new address it is classed as an in-year admission. This is managed on a local level by either the local authority, where it coordinates the in-year admissions for schools in their area, or directly by the admission authority of the school. The Department has no involvement in this process and does not hold data on the number of in-year admission applications made and length of time taken to fulfil those requests.