UC and having to look for work but what if you are home educating ?

[universalheadache]

Do they waive the requirement for one parent to look for work? How does it work as I can’t find much info online anywhere

It’s true there’s no requirement for HE to take place in office hours but if a parent is working outside of the home, there’s a question mark over who is caring for the child, which makes life difficult.

If you was to switch to uc and your child is receiving dla you could add on the care component and that would then put you in the no work group x

If there was something online or working from home that could be dipped in and out of while dc are working or sleeping i coukd maybe do that if it was something I could drop and pick up if any emergency arose but go back to it after ? Something like that but I can’t think what

Are you claiming carers allowance? If so you will not have to look for work under UC. If you aren't claiming carers then make a claim to it.

Are you home educating OP?

What’s your background? In education? Any qualifications? Presumably if you’re home educating, doing something so important for your children’s future, you have experience in teaching or something related?

In which case - finding help employment should be fairly straightforward but may not be exactly what you’d choose ideally

Could you not start up a little cleaning business and claim tax credits? And not even mention the HE

Some children with SEN really aren't suited to traditional educational ways change

The OP doesn’t have to have a teaching background to effectively teach her child.

Changeembrace sounds like you need to educate yourself on the massive community of HE. And no you don’t need teaching experience to teach a child in HE.

no I’m not a teacher I have a few GCSEs to my name and no higher qualifications
But I’ve already home educated one child (now at college) through GCSEs so I’m well equipped to do so

She got level 9’s in all GCSEs taken

That is what I was thinking either something online potentially working from home or something like cleaning maybe even working up to both but I can’t think of anything else that would allow me to care for dc and fulfill obligations as far as home educating goes

Yes I get carers allowance

With an income of 22k and no childcare costs I can't see how you'd be entitled to any UC in any case.

I assumed as we get ctc we would get uc but maybe it’s different ? We dont have childcare costs for ctc either

You get carers allowance you will be exempt stop stressing

You could just look at an online calculator, but yes you will be exempt as a carer.

You are over thinking this if you already get CA

Thankyou sorry. I’m a natural worrier and perpetually sleep deprived I just was stressing about it

If you are on Facebook I'd recommend universal credits essentials. They know everything there is with uc x

The home ed groups on Facebook are good for this kind of thing, have you asked on home education UK?

With an income of 22k and no childcare costs I can't see how you'd be entitled to any UC in any case.

Well she is.

universalheadache:
How many GCSEs did your older DC take -- and how did you find a college or school that would let her sit them at their venue? How much did you have to pay for her to sit each exam?

I've heard all that can be very challenging for HErs to sort out.

She did 5. It was really challenging
We couldn’t fond a way for her to do art gcse which was a shame as the practical aspect was proving too hard to arrange and find a place for her to sit the exam

In the end we used a local private college and she sat as an individual candidate I think it was around £800 for them all

A household income of £22k should be enough to put you in light touch or claim carers element. But UC is (based on what I've seen) usually less generous than TC. I was left a lone parent in bad circumstances, I have a child with SN and I have a mortgage, I'm dreading having to switch over.