Doing A'levels out of school/online?

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Could do with some advice or opinions. Mt DD is almost 18, dropped out of school and then college with mental health problems. She still managed to get 9 decent GCSEs. She has a retail job working 15-30 hours per week, and is starting to realise she'll need more qualifications to give herself more work options in future. She is very anxious about attending college, and has a serious fear of failure (which is putting her off starting anything new).
My question is - does anyone have experience with online A'level tuition? especially the amount of time needed for the work, private tuition etc.

Home Education forums can give you advice. But it can be tricky to get any compulsory course work or practicals marked (and can be expensive).

An alternative can be the Open University - even if the aim is to go to a physical University later, lots of Universities accept credit from the OU.
If she wants to see if this way of studying suits her there are some free courses on FutureLearn which can be good practice.

i was also going to suggest looking at an OU foundation course as an alternative to A levels.
I know people who have done an extra A level on a distance learning basis with some success, but taking 3 A levels this way may be more stressful than attending college as the support may not be there. A level courses are more exam based now and there are many subjects that don't have coursework. However for the Sciences there is a separate practical endorsement and questions in the exams on practical work. Doing this through distance learning is possible but could be expensive.