How to move mid school year, please help me get my head around this!

[MayorMumbum]

I've posted a few times recently about the mess DD is in with regards to secondary school offers and her bad mental health but I really need some advice on what to do next.

Due to my DD not being offered an acceptable school place and an overall horrible year for us as a family we are looking to move house to a nicer area where there is a bigger selection of better schools and for a new start.

We have seen the perfect house but we don't drive so would need to find a school place for DS(8). I am going to homeschool DD for mental health reasons for a while until she has a school offer. I don't see that happening until Christmas at the earliest.

So what do I do??? How can I move now without securing a place for DS at a school first? We would need to move pretty quickly and could only hold off until the May half term so DD can do her SATS at their current school. It also means removing DD2 from her nursery and possibly deferring entry to reception for a year.

I just need advice, this house is perfect and they don't come around very often in this area, but I have no idea whatsoever what to do about the school situation!

Thanks for trying to help me through all this Nearly

Ok so I guess what I'm wondering is this (I'm trying to break down what I need to do for each of my 3 DC's) if we move to a new catchment area and I have changed my preferences for DD's secondary, do they have to make her a new offer, or will they expect her to travel six/seven miles to school?

Also I am not sure I am going to put her in a new primary (she has had some mental health issues recently) I was planning to home ed until the summer but it's not set in stone yet.

If you’ve moved they will have to make her an offer at either the catchment secondary or the next nearest, and then to provide transport if necessary. If you chose to take the place at the one you’ve already been offered it would be up to you to sort transport unless the school she has already been offered is the closest with an available place then she would get transport.

Thanks so much for clearing that up. None of the catchment schools have places apparently, and we haven't been given the option of not accepting the place we were allocated as everywhere is full. I know I wouldn't be able to put my anxious 11yo on two buses to a school six miles away everyday though, it just wouldn't work.