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Admission Policy
Please find below our Pupil Information and Parental Consent Form this is completed by a Parent/Carer for every child that attends Holy Souls Primary School. Please remember to inform the school, as soon as possible, of any changes to your personal details e.g. mobile numbers, address, email etc
Pupil Information and Parental Consent Form
Link for online assistance for Primary and Secondary Schools
For more information with regards to admissions, waiting lists, appeals etc please visit the Blackburn with Darwen website link here:
https://www.blackburn.gov.uk/schools-and-education/school-admissions/admissions
Dates and Deadlines for Primary Schools 2024
2024 School Admission Round – Key Dates
| Secondary | Primary |
Admission round opens: | 4 September 2023 | 4 September 2023 |
Admission round closing date: | 31 October 2023 | 15 January 2024 |
Data sharing with other LAs: | tbc | tbc |
LA to provide AAs with details of children who have indicated their school as a preference (on-time applications): | 28 November 2023 | 26 January 2024 |
Local Authority medical, social, welfare need Panel: | 13 December 2023 | 7 February 2024 |
School cut-off date for criteria to be inputted on SAM (on-time applications). | 15 December 2023 | 23 February 2024 |
LA will check and consider all preferences and allocate school offers: | 2 January 2024 till 2 February 2024 | 26 February 2024 till 22 March 2024 |
Change of preference/late online applications cut-off date (exceptional circumstances accepted as on-time applications – to be confirmed by AA): | 26 January 2024 | 11 March 2024 |
National offer day: | 1 March 2024 | 16 April 2024 |
Parental acceptance deadline: | 14 March 2024 | 29 April 2024 |
Closing date for appeals (to be heard on-time): | 29 March 2024 | 17 May 2024 |
LCC Timetable:
Secondary
Date | Action |
1 September 2023 | Online application system goes live and requests for paper forms / booklets accepted and considered |
31 October 2023 | Closing date for applications (statutory) |
7 November 2023 | Secondary schools / academies to forward any paper applications to Area Pupil Access Teams |
21 November 2023 | Preferences information exchange with other Local Authorities |
5 December 2023 | Information to be exchanged with Own Admission Authority Schools |
12 December 2023 | Admission authority to confirm intention to exceed PAN with the LA |
18 December 2023 | Prioritised (ranked) lists back to the Local Authority |
15 January 2024 | No further address changes can be accepted. |
23 January 2024 | Further exchange of lists with other admission authorities |
13 February 2024 | No changes at all can be made to offer letters after this date |
24 February 2024 | Issue finalised offer lists to secondary schools / academies |
1 March 2024 | Issue offer letters/emails. (statutory date is 1st March or the next working day) |
Primary
Date | Action |
1 September 2023 | Online application system goes live and requests for paper forms / booklets accepted and considered |
Sunday 15 January 2024 | Closing date for applications (statutory) |
20 January 2024 | Primary schools / academies to forward any paper applications to Area Pupil Access Teams |
27 January 2024 | Preferences information exchange with other Local Authorities |
3 February 2024 | Information to be exchanged with Own Admission Authority Schools |
10 February 2024 | Admission authority to confirm intention to exceed PAN with the LA |
28 February 2024 | No further address changes can be accepted. |
17 March 2024 | Prioritised (ranked) lists back to the Local Authority |
24 March 2024 | Further exchange of lists with other admission authorities |
31 March 2024 | No changes at all can be made to offer letters after this date |
16 April 2024 | Issue finalised offer lists to primary schools / academies |
16 April 2024 | Issue offer letters/emails. (statutory date or next working day) |
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