Charter admissions - campaign's objections win

The Campaign for Fair Admissions to the Charter School has won its bid to get the Charter to include Wanley Road as a safe walking route to school. 

The Charter School's admission arrangements give priority to children living nearest the school, measured along safe walking routes. Until now, the Charter has not included Wanley Road as a safe walking route, meaning that children living on the Dog Kennel Hill side of Greendale were expected to walk a long way round. Because the Charter is one of the area's most oversubscribed secondaries, this meant that frequently, these children were considered to live too far away to get places at all.

But now, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator has upheld the Campaign's objection to this arrangement, ruling that the Charter must include Wanley Road as a safe route, with immediate effect.  You can download a PDF of the Adjudicator's full ruling here.  (NB: it's enormous - 20 pages - and may take a few minutes to download.)

The Campaign asks us to pass on thanks to everybody who signed its Open Letter, which was published in the Southwark News on 26 January, and to all the parents, friends, children - and small dogs! -  who turned up to the Wanley Road street-party on Wednesday 1 February. A picture of the event was on the front page of the Southwark News in its 2 February edition.