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Consultation on the schools admissions system in Surrey

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We were appointed to undertake consultation on the schools admissions system for community and voluntary controlled schools in Surrey. The research involved a series of focus groups with parents in each of the 11 districts in the County as well as council members; a detailed face-to-face interviewer survey with a representative sample of parents and postal survey of all parents currently applying for school places. The study examined the current system of allocating school places compared with an alternative system based on different allocation criteria. The methodology involved the presentation of case study schools in each district illustrating how admissions would be affected by each system for these schools. The consultation provided Surrey with a good understanding of the public's views on the schools admissions system for use in developing policy in this area.