Too old for 6th form?

[CarrieErbag]

Currently home edding dd after removing her from school.
She would have been going into year 11 had she stayed.
She wants to split her GCSEs between June 18 and June 19 as she has had to start a couple of different courses now she will be an external student.
We had hoped that once she got her confidence back and was less anxious having left school that she might find a 6th form somewhere.
Would she be too old though if she joins a year later than others?

Have you got sixth form colleges around, or colleges that offer A levels? They tend to be more varied in intake and age.

We are unlikely to be staying in the area we currently live so I haven't made specific enquiries.
I wondered if there was a general rule regarding what age you would have your A levels funded?

I believe it's up to 24, though others are likely to know more than me. NUS advice here.

One of mine is doing Art Foundation rather than going straight to University. I rang Tax Credits and Child Benefit as I knew I could claim for her for the year, and the very helpful man I (eventually!) spoke to mentioned in passing that one could claim for a child in Further Education (ie A level or similar, anything that's not degree level) until they were twenty.

There are all sorts of reasons a child might be a year or two behind their peers, at least one of the girls in the Academy sixth form that my daughters went to was a year older than the others, she'd been living in Africa for many years and needed to catch up, and another friend at a different school is also a year behind due to illness.

A year late should be ok. There is funding for three years post 16, so she'll have two years. There's no room for repeating a year though.

That's true, Alpaca. CB and Tax Credits can be claimed for a young person in full-time non-advanced education up until the day before her 20th birthday, provided she was being home educated before the age of 16.

However, I think the OP was asking about the direct costs, i.e. whether her daughter could do the course without having to pay for it.

The only money we've been asked for by the FE college is a contribution towards art materials. Definitely no fees. It's just like school but no uniform basically. She's loving it so far!

I knew quite a lot of people who were a year older as they resat the first year or went back after trying apprenticeships and disliking it