Home schooling if parents working

[Crazyhouse123]

Hi I just wondered if home schooling is possible if you work? My job is 30 hours a week. My ds has asd and ADHD and severe anxiety. We now have an attendance level of just over 50% for this year. I am seriously considering pulling him out of school and home schooling. But I cannot afford to not work and UC is not available to us due to DP's wages.
Do any of you do this? And how? Online lessons? Evening lessons? I am looking into it all but I am finding so much conflicting information and I dont know where to go for the best information.
I want my child to learn but at the moment they are not, the school are trying to help but reaching the end of their resources.
I have been advised to apply for ECP can I use this for home schooling?
Are there any websites where I can get the info I need easily? I don't seem to be looking in the right places.
Thank you so much for any help.

How old is he?

I HE my DD in year 9 whilst running a business. It was bloody difficult, I could only do it because I had the flexibility to work very early mornings, evenings and weekends, though I did take her places during the week. Every other child we met had a mother who was either not working or working very reduced hours. There's a lot of driving them around.

I guess in theory you could set them up with inter high or something depending on their age, but it would need a lot of discipline on their part.

Search home education and your location on FB for groups, and there's also https://he-exams.wikia.org/wiki/HEExamss_Wiki

Hi thank you for your reply.

Sorry age is key he is 15 so year10.
I will look at the website thank you.

How much support do you get from the LA? I’d document everything then push, push, push for a specialist placement for him.

Depends on things like his age (notice now you've said 15) so how capable he is with being set some tasks sometimes to get on with.
Also on how many hours your partner works if you have one and how your hours are spread out.
I have a younger child and my husband works full time but in shifts and I work but from home.

It's quite possible for you to educate him during the hours when you aren't working, and/or have him do some studying on his own, though helping kids through GCSEs (if that is the plan for him) is a lot of work. That side of it needn't be a deal-breaker.

The more tricky question with this age is, what would it feel like for your son to spend many hours on his own at home? (Assuming you and your DP both work similar hours to each other?) Some teens would be okay with it. Others might be able to get themselves out of the house regularly and keep themselves occupied. But I am guessing that with your son's severe anxiety he probably needs more support than that.

In his particular case, what would be the challenges? What would his days look like? Do you have any resources available to you such as nearby relatives who might be able to help out? If your current jobs aren't compatible with being around for your son, is it possible for you or your DP to change to a job which is?

Whether or not you take your son out of school now, I imagine this is a situation you will face after he finishes Y11, if he isn't well enough to attend college, so perhaps you have already given it some thought.