00:00 It is the responsibility of us to check all of that information that comes in to make sure that we are issuing places to the right children.
00:08 Which is not the easiest thing to do because parents have to, on point of admission, provide a number of pieces of evidence
00:19 in order to satisfy the admissions criteria. So, for example, it might be the child's birth certificate or the child's passport, a letter from their GP, it might be a bank statement of the parent, it might be a council tax bill in order to provide proof of address and proof of identity.
00:40 And we know that we have
00:45 to make those checks as robust and as stringent as they possibly can be so that we're being fair to all families.
00:53 However, I think the big challenge here is the line that schools need to keep on in terms of the fact we are not private detectives, we can't be deploying staff to go and
01:08 stake out a particular house to make sure that a family is actually living there and we have to take the trust and the word of applicants for our school places if they are providing the correct ID and proof of address.
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