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Blackpool Council
Customer First Centre
Municipal Building
Corporation Street
Blackpool
FY1 1NF

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Tel: (01253) 477477

Customer First Centre
Monday to Friday 8.30am-5.15pm
Saturday 10am-1pm

Customer First Telephone Line
8.30am-5.15pm Monday to Friday
Saturday 10am-1pm
School Choice Advice

School Choice Advice School Choice Advice is about helping and supporting families including mothers, fathers, carers and children to make the best and most realistic choice of Primary and Secondary school.

The Family Information Service (FIS) will help you but will not decide for you and acts independently. The FIS cannot guarantee a place at a school for you.

The aim of Choice Advice is to help families optimise their school choices using all the information to hand and use of local knowledge of what individual schools have to offer. This ensures you are more likely to get the best place for your child.
Where appropriate, this may include information about schools which might be in different local authority areas. The FIS will work with you to understand your child's educational needs and interests, providing and explaining key information in order to help you make an informed choice.


Some examples of information which may be discussed are:
  • how the admissions system works
  • admissions policies for different types of schools
  • performance and value-added data
  • school OFSTED reports
  • oversubscription criteria
  • school profile, ethos, special facilities
  • school's specialism if it is a specialist school
  • time of the school day and term dates
  • travel details
  • uniform policy
The FIS will actively listen to your wishes or concerns, using appropriate and effective resources to help smooth the admissions process whenever possible. A central part of their work is that the advice given is impartial and independent and is in the best interest of your child.
 
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