I applied for my year 10 son to move secondary schools through the normal application. The new school decided to put him on a "managed move" due to my son and I being honest about disruptive behaviour and achievements as a boxer. Nobody form the LEA was present and the new school had not received any information about my son from his current school. The new school also dropped him down to year 9 due to differences in curriculums even though he was on "trial". I have never signed anything official for the move, my son didn't receive induction, support or mentoring from the new school and no package was put into place to ensure success. After 3 months at the school, where my son was extremely happy, the school decided the move was unsuccessful due to a "minor incident" with a teacher. This happed four days before the summer break.
It is now October and my son still hasn't got an educational plan as he has missed too much out of his GCSE studies to go up to year 11 at his original school and making him redo year 10 would set him up for failure as the current headmaster agreed with me. I have contacted LEA, both schools involved, governors of the receiving school, Children's Commission, Cabinet member for education, SNAP, Career Wales and have even been to my local MP.
My son is a victim of a totally mismanaged and unofficial managed move leaving him with no educational provision. My son was no where near exclusion and doesn't fit the criteria of a managed move, yet the receiving school dropped him a year and then decided he couldn't become a permanent pupil after all! I have received nothing at all from the school regarding any part of this process and have actually been ignored completely. My son is wasting away at home and nobody is interested - what can I do??
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15 year old son put on and unnecessary managed move and dropped down a year - move failed child not in school now
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Sharon19713 · 03/10/2016 16:32
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