If your child is currently in year 6 at primary school, you'll need to start thinking now about applying for a place for them to attend their preferred secondary school, to start in September 2023.
Applications must be made before Monday 31 October 2022 and parents and guardians will be contacted with the result to their application on national offer day, 1 March 2023.
School choice fails to empower parents, study finds Policies to increase school choice have not given parents a greater sense of control over their children’s education, new research has found. Parents given multiple options for their child’s school are no happier about education than those who have little choice, according to research published in the Journal of Social Policy.