Ds used to be very well behaved but really struggled socially. He started a new school a couple of years ago which is a lot smaller and a better fit pastoral wise.
The problem is he is attracting the wrong type of friends. There have been a couple of issues in which school was involved last year to provide some support but it all died down.
He is now telling friends silly lies, that I won't let him go to places or that I've told him off for something or I am being mean, that I've said things I haven't. That I've cleared everyone's numbers so he needs them again,that I've made comments about his friends parents etc None of which has happened. He also lies about things to fit in. He's lying that an ex girlfriend did horrid things but there wasn't an ex girlfriend.
He is lying to his friends that he has no drink when he has and then borrowing money and drinking three of those large energy drinks as I have found out. I'm cross about this as he has had some medical issues that are possibly related.
I've found messages saying i must be dumb to believe the lies about homework club etc (which I didn't believe)
I've always said he can go out with friends as long as I know where he is and he texts me to let me know he is heading back as school is a distance away and he has some learning difficulties so I've no idea what he is playing at.
At the moment his phone is completely locked down with an app as he is already in trouble and he has no WiFi access so he has instead managed to create a sharing hot-spot on his phone so he can everything he's been banned from on his tablet which the app thankfully alerted me to.
I'm at my witts end. If I give him any freedom he proves time after time I can't trust him. (he once turned up three hours late after school after telling me that his friends Mum was bringing them home but was delayed, I knew Mum from primary and she had brought them home before) and told me he was on his way and he wasn't.
Help!