PARENTS wanting to send their youngsters to the new Burley Primary School need to swing into action.

Bradford Council has said those with three and four-year-olds should now be thinking about the application process.

Burley Primary, based in Langford Lane, is one of eight newly created schools which have emerged from the council's schools reorganisation.

Information booklets and application forms are now available from primary schools and these should be filled in and returned to the preferred school before the end of January 2000.

Previously parents could simply ring a school and ask for their child's name to be put on a waiting list for a place but now all parents - whether or not they have already put their child's name down at a certain school - must fill in an application form.

In line with many other local authorities in the country, allocating places will no longer be from waiting lists kept by primary schools but by application form.

Coun Susanne Rooney, Bradford Council chairman of education, said: "The new arrangements will help improve the allocation procedure because the previous system of using lists kept by schools could easily become out of date."

"The application form gives parents the opportunity to state the reasons why they want a particular school."

This applies to children born between September 1 1995 and August 31 1996.

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