Yorkshire property plays part in tactical school applications

Parents are sometimes known to buy or sell property in Yorkshire and elsewhere in a tactical move to help their youngsters get into desirable schools. In certain cases, this may mean they need to achieve a fast house sale in Yorkshire or a different part of the UK.

However, some adults have been playing the system and, rather than actually moving residences, have simply claimed they live somewhere other than their actual address, it has been suggested.

According to figures obtained by the Yorkshire Post, more than one hundred parents in the region have been caught supplying false information in a bid to win their children places at a better school. It requested the statistics from local education authorities and noted that 12 out of 13 such organisations that responded had uncovered people lying about where they live.

In total, 108 cases were documented, with most of these occurring over the course of the last two years.

Some individuals had rented a property in a school's catchment area at the time they were applying for a place, rather than engaging in a fast house sale in Yorkshire. Meanwhile, a number of parents had told councils they had split up in order to claim that that the child's permanent home had changed.

Another ploy involved an applicant in Leeds using an address that he or she knew was being rented out by a friend.

Recently, the chief schools adjudicator Ian Craig carried out a review of such dishonest activity and published two reports. One of the local authorities to take part was Hull Council.

Commenting on the way it deals with the problem of potential dishonesty, it said: "Where a parent provides an address that is in one of these catchment areas we make initial checks and if it appears that the parent may have been giving a false address we ask them to provide a utility bill linking them to that address."

Issues like this are not restricted to those who need to buy or sell property in Yorkshire, but occur across the country in places where schools are oversubscribed.


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