You Know What’s Best for Your Child. We’ll Help You Prove It.
A refusal letter can feel like a decision has already been made about your child’s future. It hasn’t. You already know why this school is right for them - what you need now is to turn that conviction into a case the panel can’t ignore.
School Place Appeal builds your complete Appeal Pack - grounds assessed honestly, evidence reviewed, a submission-ready statement, and hearing preparation - for school admission appeals across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Everything in your Appeal Pack
Deadlines vary by nation and authority - check your refusal letter for the exact date.
Ordinary UK school admission appeals only - not a named-placement special educational needs plan dispute (EHCP, IDP, CSP or a statement of SEN), which follows a separate tribunal process.
Every Ground That Could Help Your Child
We check your case against the full set of admission appeal grounds - honestly, evidence by evidence - so nothing that could genuinely help your child gets missed.
Nobody Knows Your Child Like You Do
You know what your child needs to thrive - the friendships, the support, the environment that brings out the best in them. You know why this school is the right one. A refusal letter doesn’t change any of that. It just means the system hasn’t heard it yet, in the way it actually needs to be heard.
That’s where we come in. You bring what you know about your child; we bring the rules - which grounds a panel or committee can actually act on, what evidence genuinely moves the needle, and how those rules differ across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Together, that’s a case worth making. Accepting the offered place and joining the waiting list doesn’t stop you appealing - many parents pursue all three at once.
What Actually Counts in an Admission Appeal
Genuine grounds
- A documented administrative or procedural error in how your application was handled
- The published admissions criteria applied incorrectly to your case
- A specific, evidenced medical need or exceptional family circumstance
- A distance, sibling, faith or selective-test issue checkable against the published policy
Weak on their own
- General preference for the refused school, or its reputation
- The offered school being “not as good”, without a specific evidenced problem
- Belief that another child was wrongly admitted, without evidence of an error in your own case
- Cost or convenience of the offered school, without evidence of genuine hardship
Read our full guide to appealing a school admission refusal for a complete breakdown, or jump straight to your ground in our appeal guides.
A Complete Appeal Pack, Built Around Your Case
Understanding your case is what actually helps: which grounds apply, what evidence is missing, and how ready your appeal really is. That’s what your Appeal Pack delivers - a grounds assessment, an evidence review, a submission-ready statement and hearing preparation, all built specifically around your child’s case.
Solicitor or Education Consultant
- Expensive professional fees - often hundreds of pounds
- Days or weeks
- Meetings required
School Place Appeal
- £14.99 fixed fee
- Complete Appeal Pack: grounds assessment, evidence review, statement & hearing prep
- Honest, evidence-graded - never inflated
- Missing-evidence report included
How It Works
Tell Us What Happened
Paste your refusal letter and admission arrangements, and we'll check the case is in scope.
Get an Honest Grounds Assessment
We assess every possible ground against your evidence - nothing inflated, nothing invented.
Build Your Evidence
Add your own words and supporting evidence - medical letters, travel information, and more.
Get Your Appeal Pack
A submission-ready appeal statement, plus hearing prep and a missing-evidence report.
Not sure which ground applies to you?
Read our guides on the grounds a panel actually weighs.
An Honest Assessment, Not a Guaranteed Outcome
This is about your child, which is exactly why we won’t tell you what you want to hear if it isn’t true. No service - including this one - can honestly predict how the panel or committee deciding your case will rule. What we can do is help you see clearly: which grounds genuinely apply, what evidence supports them, what’s missing, and how to present it coherently.
Our appeal readiness assessment measures how well-prepared your case is - evidence, policy alignment, documentation and clarity - never a probability of success. Where something is missing, we say so, rather than papering over the gap.
That’s what a genuinely evidence-led Appeal Pack gives you - clarity, not false confidence.
Give Your Child the Case They Deserve.
Grounds assessed, evidence reviewed, statement drafted, hearing prep included - your complete Appeal Pack for one fixed fee of £14.99.
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