Home education

[Denisegorm]

Recently started home education for my 15 year old granddaughter she has anxiety and mental health issues and she just wouldn't go to school for the last two years , the school at first were helpful and tried to accommodate her needs and her mum and.my husband and I tried everything possible to get her to school.The school set up plans and reduced time tables only to go back on this when she went to school which caused her more anxiety.The school would come out unannounced to check on her well being and try to get her to school which was a very stressful time for my granddaughter and myself as as is know living with us most of the time.Her.mum.as.been fined and is on.probation and doing community services she has two other children one who attends the same school as my gy used to and he goes with any issues.The issues now is we are waiting for the edcati welfare officer to get in touch as I filled the home education.learning form in.two weeks ago and the response came back the next day via ema has i declined home visit.They said that the education was assessed as not adequate and was therefore passing it to education welfare officer and was recommending return to school .This not the best environment for my granddaughter and i did send a letter via email with more information on which was sent to education welfare officer to assess, as of yet.not hearf anything and we can't relax till.we.know the next step and we go away on.holiday soon any advice on what to do

Thanks for all your feedback yes officially deregistered and ehe worker say that's form.infilled in.cant be assesses.as adequate learning so passed on to education welfare officer with possible return to school.I sent the ehe officer a letter and some work that gd had done and she said that she can no longer assess any work and had passed it on to education welfare officer who would be in touch that was nearly two weeks ago and not heard anything

The first step after submitting insufficient evidence won’t be involvement of ewo with a view to returning to school…
Sorry OP I don’t know if it’s the device you’re on but your messages are a bit incoherent so we can’t tell exactly what stage you are at and why

Yes, that is an excellent group. You will get good targeted advice there.

You are wise to decline home visits, Your LA is trying to mislead you about the law, by implying they can simply send your GD back to school if they don't like the education she is receiving. There is a long-winded legal process they must follow. It is actually fairly rare for an LA to succeed in forcing a child to school over the parents' objections, provided the parents get good advice on how to argue their case. It is sensible to engage with that process, but you don't have to do everything they say. Keeping a paper trail, as you are doing, is tremendously helpful.

Of course, another reason to keep everything in writing is to shield your GD from worry. Given how intolerable the school environment was for her, she might well be deeply distressed at the prospect of being sent back. It's clear your LA is in the habit of making empty threats. Unfortunately children may believe the LA has more power than it has, even if their family reassure them otherwise.