Support with School Admission Appeals

Parents facing a school appeal need clear guidance, realistic advice, and compassionate support at every stage of the process. This page explains how appeals support works, what is included, and how fees are structured.

How appeals support helps

Appeals can feel daunting, especially when the outcome has a major impact on your child’s wellbeing and future. Support focuses on making the process understandable, strategic, and as calm as possible.

Clarifying whether you have a strong basis for appeal and what type of appeal applies (infant class size, prejudice, or other grounds).
Explaining how the local authority or academy appeal process works, what the panel considers, and what realistic outcomes look like.
Helping you stay organised and prepared so that deadlines, evidence, and key arguments are all managed carefully.

Primary and secondary appeals

Support is available for both primary and secondary school appeals, drawing on extensive experience of admissions and appeals in Hertfordshire and beyond.

Primary appeals: including Reception and Key Stage 1/2, with particular attention to class size rules, safeguarding, and practical family circumstances.
Secondary appeals: including oversubscription, selective and consortium schools, distance and rule‐based criteria, and cases involving medical, social, or pastoral needs.

What is included in full appeals support

The full appeals package is designed to walk you step‑by‑step through the process for one child, from initial case review to hearing preparation.

Reviewing all key documents (allocation letters, admissions policy, refusal letter, medical/social evidence, professional reports and supporting documents).
Shaping and drafting your written appeal statement, ensuring it is clear, focused and aligned with what panels are actually able to consider.
Advising what evidence to gather, how to present it, and how to respond to the school’s case and Governors’ Statement.
Preparing you for the hearing itself: likely questions, how to present your case, how to manage nerves and keep the focus on your child’s needs.

Fees and how they work

To ensure that any appeal support is both tailored and genuinely useful, all work begins with a structured one‑hour consultation.

Initial consultation: £95 for a one‑hour appointment (online/phone/videocall or in person where practical). This session is used to review your situation, discuss the school(s) in question, and assess the strength and type of appeal open to you.
Appeals support fee: £995 for full support with a primary or secondary school appeal for one child, covering case review, drafting, evidence strategy and hearing preparation.
Consultation deducted: if you decide to go ahead with the full appeals support after your initial consultation, the £95 consultation fee is deducted from the £995 appeals package, so you only pay the remaining balance.

Next steps

If you are considering an appeal or have already received an allocation you are unhappy with, early advice can significantly improve how you frame your case. To discuss availability or to book an initial consultation, please use the contact details or the online contact form below.

Request a Secondary Transfer Appeals Consultation

The appeals consultation is a two-part process.

Initially, a 60-minute consultation is required in the same format as the Clinic (via an online “Zoom”-style meeting), with a fee of £95. This allows me to assess the basis of your appeal and determine whether I can take on your case. If I do not believe your appeal has more than a 75% chance of success, I will not proceed.

The full fee will be payable in advance upon confirmation of the consultation, as I will need to conduct research before the meeting.

After the 60-minute consultation, I will take 48 hours to consider the merits and potential outcome of your appeal. I will then contact you with a decision on whether I can support you through the appeal process.

If you would like to proceed, please complete the form below and provide as much detail as possible.

Secondary Transfer Appeals Service

On the basis that I have agreed to take on your case, the Secondary Transfer Appeals Service will require further information to be submitted by you which I will request. The fee for this is an additional £995 and covers up to four school appeals (Hertfordshire applicants are given four preferences on their County Application Form, or “CAF”).

I do not represent families at their appeal hearing and the rationale behind this is very simple; Appeal Panel members do not want to hear a version of your story told by someone like me. They want you to tell them in your own words, why you believe a particular school is the one most suitable for your child and the reasons you hold this to be true.

Once you draft out your basis of appeal, my job will be to restructure, re-word and re-write your statement and provide coaching on the best delivery to the panel and we will cover the types of questions that you may be asked by both the School representative and the Panel members.

Payment

Bank Transfer

Please contact me for account information.

PayPal

If your appointment has been confirmed you can pay via PayPal to @KKing14 or via the PayPal link below. If using PayPal, please select the option to pay as Friends and Family OR apply a further 2.9% to cover PayPal fees incurred. Alternatively, I can send you a PayPal invoice in the correct amount. If you would prefer to receive an invoice, please let me know. Once payment has been received I will contact you with a final confirmation of session.