Gave HR at Warton a ring - said that they only ave WE to local kids (fair 'nuff).
Yet to hear from boscombe, but will send ITPS a letter too.
And yes, Crimbo might not have been the best of times, but we'd only just heard about it, and the placements had to be in *now* - but they've put the deadline back a few weeks because they made such a ballsup of it.
('they' being the WE co-ordinators at school)
Thanks for the info all
-tacc