Please speak to my office before making any purchase.  This is for a short piece of advice after an initial discussion.  It will be followed up by email advice about a proposed way forward.

It is a fixed Agreed Fee of £80 plus VAT.

1 Course Delegate - details of course and venue to follow by separate email.

Additional delegate reservation

Our low costs initial advice service, speak to John and discover the strenghts and weakneeses of your case. You will get advice about the best way forward and what to do next. The consultation is about 20 minutes and includes a short summary of the advice given and brief investigation of the circumstances.

This is exceptional value and is a fixed Agreed fee of £80 plus VAT

When you get the school's case for refusing you a place it can seem overwhelming. The facts and figures can take your breath away and many parents feel lost and hopeless. The experience that we bring to this part of the process is based on years of dealing with such paperwork. We can spot any possible cracks and target questions to your advantage. By the time you go into the appeal you are fully armed with relevant questions and focussed on the strongest parts of your own case.

We have a detailed consultation with you and having seen the school's case we carefully consider any possible weaknesses. We talk you through the whole appeal hearing process, with advice about what to say, when to say it and how to present yourself to the panel to have maximum impact.

We prepare all the necessary documentation so that you can be really focussed on the critical issues. Key questions about the school case, details of any breaches of the admissions code or relevant law in the school presentation and any other factors that may weaken the argument that to admit another child would cause prejudice. We then provide a list of bullet points about your own personal circumstances that you can expand on in the second part of the hearing. The other parts of your paperwork may contain key school data, extracts from the admissions code relevant to your case and tips about presenting your appeal to the Panel.

This is a fixed Agreed Fee of £395 plus VAT

If we are instructed on both parts of the process at the outset the agreed fee is £700 plus VAT. A total saving of £228

Payments can be staged - the initial payment being £495 plus VAT and then a payment of £246 which includes VAT four weeks later, unless a hearing is imminent.

Please note that if there is little time to prepare for a hearing then full payment will be required at the time of instruction and that no work will be undertaken until payment is made.

We manage, prepare and advise you about every element of the process. This is the complete service, ensuring seamless preparation of your child's appeal. You have unlimited access to pre-hearing advice by telephone or email to the point of the appeal hearing.

This is a fixed Agreed Fee of £700 plus VAT.