All schools (including independent schools) must supply the local authority with information on children who transition outside the standard transition points.
For example, if, within the school year, they:
- start at your school
- leave your school
New starters
Please let us know as soon as possible when you have been notified by the child's parent or carer and within 5 days of registering new pupils (at the latest within 5 days of the deadline supplied by admissions in the admissions letter).
Report changes to school admission register
Child leaving
Refer to
Annex A (Regulation 8 reason for deletion) of the DfE guidance to confirm the reason for the child leaving.
How to notify us of a child leaving school
Use the table below to check which form you need to complete.
| Child has left your school and you know where they are going | Complete 'Report changes to school admission register' form | 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14 or 15
Please select the relevant option when prompted to on the form | No later than the time at which the pupil's name is to be deleted from the register (for deletion the pupil must satisfy one of the criteria in the regulations) |
| Child has left your school and you don't know where they are going | Complete the child missing in education form | 5, 6, 8, 12, 14 or 15 Please add reason to 'Further information' section (section 2) of form | No later than the time at which the pupil's name is to be deleted from the register (for deletion the pupil must satisfy one of the criteria in the regulations) |
| Child has left your school due to be educated at home |
Complete the child being educated from home form | 4 Please add reason to 'Further information' section (section 2) of form | No later than the time at which the pupil's name is deleted from the register |
| Child has left your school due to permanent exclusion | Complete the permanent exclusion form | 13 This will not need adding to the form | Within 24 hours of the exclusion |
Child is deceased
or
child is certified by school medical officer as unlikely to be in a fit state of health to attend school before ceasing to be of compulsory school age | Email eipt-notifications.ncc@westnorthants.gov.uk | 10, 7 | |