1. ‎The number of reports made to the council of attempts (successful or not) to obtain a school place through fraudulent means (for example giving a false address on the application). Please break the numbers down by primary and secondary. Please also break the numbers down by school year (September to August) for the past five years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
o Please breakdown the numbers by how many of those reports came from members of the public in each year.
Wokingham Borough Council does not maintain a formal record of the number of reports made to the Council of attempts to obtain a school place through fraudulent means

2. The number of investigations into attempts (successful or not) to obtain a school place through fraudulent means. Please break the numbers down by primary and secondary. Please also break the numbers down by school year (September to August) for the past five years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
Wokingham Borough Council does not maintain a formal record of the number investigations into attempts (successful or not) to obtain a school place through fraudulent means.

3. Have private investigators been hired to investigate? If so, please breakdown the number of times hired and cost by school year for the past five years.
No

4. The number of a) offers nor made, b) offers withdrawn and c) places withdrawn as a result of fraudulent activity on applications. Please break the numbers down by primary and secondary. Please also break the numbers down by school year (September to August) for the past five years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
Wokingham Borough Council does not maintain a formal record of the number of a) offers nor made, b) offers withdrawn and c) places withdrawn as a result of fraudulent activity on applications. Additionally, the current system does not allow us to extract specific details about individual cases, such as the nature of any fraud or the schools involved.

5. The number of times sibling priority has been removed as a result of fraudulent activity (i.e. the first place was obtained fraudulently so subsequent siblings will not get priority when applying to the same school). Please break the numbers down by primary and secondary. Please also break the numbers down by school year (September to August) for the past five years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)
Wokingham Borough Council does not keep a formal record of applications identified as fraudulent. Additionally, the current system does not allow us to extract specific details about individual cases, such as the nature of any fraud or whether sibling priority was subsequently removed