Admission Authorities

2.1 For Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools

In the case of Community and Voluntary Controlled schools within Pembrokeshire, the Admission Authority is Pembrokeshire County Council (the LA). The contact details for Pembrokeshire County Council are as follows:

Admissions Team

Education Directorate

Records Management Unit

Unit 7

East Estate

Withybush Road

Haverfordwest

SA62 4BW

Tel: 01437 764551

Email: admissions@pembrokeshire.gov.uk

Applications should be made using the online admission form , accessed via the Pembrokeshire County Council Website.

2.2 For Voluntary Aided schools

For Voluntary Aided schools (Church in Wales or Catholic) the Admission Authority is the School Governing Body. Applications are made online in the same way as above, and will be passed from the Local Authority to the relevant school.

2.3 For schools in neighbouring authorities

Pembrokeshire shares its borders with Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion local authorities. Should you wish your child to attend a school in either of these authorities, then you should contact that Authority directly.

2.4 Relevant area for consultation

In accordance with the Education (Relevant Areas for Consultation on Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999, the relevant area for all schools in Pembrokeshire is the geographical area of Pembrokeshire County Council (the County Council).

2.5 Co-ordinated Scheme (2027 intake)

The Welsh Government has published new requirements which have been imposed by the Education (Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024 and came into force on 28 June 2024.

The scheme is for local authorities to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable, that every parent of a child living in the local authority area who applies for a school place within the normal primary and secondary admission rounds, receives an offer on one, and only one school place on the common offer day for these school places.

Pembrokeshire County Council already operates a successful co-ordinated scheme, and so this will continue with some minor changes to take place beginning in the 2027 primary and secondary intakes. The changes will include amended deadline dates for admissions applications to be submitted (31st October for Secondary applications and 15th January for Primary applications) and a shorter period for parents to accept offers of places (two weeks).

Parents will continue to submit an application for a primary and secondary school place via the Pembrokeshire Council website. An application for a VA School will continue to be forwarded to the Governing Body who will make the decisions in line with their school’s own admissions arrangements. A response to all applications will be sent to parents directly from Pembrokeshire County Council’s admissions service.

There will be no change to the way that in-year applications are processed.

As we do not have the ability in Pembrokeshire for parents to apply via our common application form for schools outside of our local authority, parents will remain advised to submit any such applications to the local authority in which the school is located. We will continue to share information on cross-border applications with our neighbouring authorities to assist with the co-ordinated scheme.

School Admissions Policy