Home Ed after Primary School Education

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I’d be grateful for any advice & tips on HE my son once he leaves PS this year.
He is awaiting an assessment for Autusim but that’s years away due to waiting list length which is in fact closed to new additions but his Paediatrician is pushing hard for him to be added, even so it’ll be at least 2 year wait; he is bullied by other children daily/regularly; I could go on with the list......
We live in a rural area so there’s no local groups of other HE children, but I’d be willing to travel to meet with others.

Has anyone any experience/advice on HE through his senior school education as I can’t see this getting any better however hard I try & give people credit where credit is due.
Many thanks in advance

Read up about Deschooling and take some time to find your way and discover how best he learns and what enthuses him.
Facebook groups. Even if you can't get to meets you can make connections and get support for if you have a bad day.
If you are planning gcses then join the exam groups and read along every now and again. The more information you can absorb in a relaxed, don't need to make decisions yet, way the easier it is to make decisions when you need to. However don't make it all about gcses too early. Have fun. I anticipated that home educating a secondary school age child was going to be much more different to home eding at primary age than it turned out to be. Instead the shift happened more around the age of 13 as he matured.
Education at secondary is not really linear. Maths and English are different as you do need to work on developing and building up skills. Other subjects are quite distinct, you don't need to work through the content of ks3 in order to do GCSE. It is much more valuable to build up the skills needed such as analysing sources in history rather than covering a particular time period of that makes sense.

There is a very good HE exam centre down in Faregos for GCSEs. There are a few online secondary schools around these days and the Home Ed Exam Wiki page breaks down different providers: he-exams.wikia.com/wiki/CorrespondenceCourses If that link doesn't work, just google Home Ed Exam Wiki Distance Learning Providers.

Thank you both for your tips & advice, must helpful :-)