Can't afford the catchment area tax? According to the Schools Adjudicator, here's the top 10 alternatives (in order of popularity):

1. making an application from a relative's address
2. temporarily renting a property while making an application
3. inventing a marriage break-up, with one parent moving to a fictional address
4. claiming to live with a different parent, following a genuine break-up
5. using a secondary address, perhaps of a property rented out to a third party
6. using an old address
7. using a commercial or business address
8. using friend's addresses
9. actually swapping addresses with friends
10. claiming to live in an empty property

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