School Admissions and Application Fraud Data
For each of the last seven academic or financial years (please use whichever period for which the data is held - and including 2024/2025), please provide the following statistics concerning school admissions or applications fraud: 1/ The annual number of investigations into school admissions or application fraud broken down by year and a) primary school and b) secondary school 2/ The annual number such investigations where the fraud was proven, broken down by year 3/ Please briefly summarise any common reasons for such a determination e.g. renting out a property in the catchment area but not living there, or registering company accounts at a relative's house within the catchment area but not living there. For clarification, these do not have to be calculated to definitively be the most common reasons. This news article includes common reasons in Kent: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/we-can-t-stop-every-parent-from-lying-to-get-a-school-place-302632/ 4/ The annual number of places withdrawn because of such fraud, broken down by year 5/ The total number of investigations into such fraud which have resulted in prosecution over this entire period. Please list any cases which went to court over this period and any resulting charges