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Considering deregistering DD tomorrow, please help!

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Beebityboo · 01/11/2020 11:01

I posted in the Coronavirus subreddit yesterday but was advised to post here too. I need to make a decision today so really need advice.
DD is in year 8 and is suffering with terrible anxiety going to school right now, she also has Aspergers. She has anxiety anyway but currently with the pandemic it's a nightmare for her. She has a 45 minutes bus ride each way and the mask is suffocating for her. She won't consider an exemption badge/lanyard as I'm disabled and vulnerable to Covid. She is terrified she is going to make me sick. The whole atmosphere at school is tense and stressful.
I have two in primary but DD is desperate to be pulled out until next September. Her headteacher has told me she would almost certainly be allowed back and has been so supportive throughout, but be just can't let her stay home any longer. She was in one week last term! She also just finished self isolating due to being a close contact of a positive case "for several hours" and spent the last two weeks inside worried completely sick worried she was going to "kill her mummy" Sad
I am doing a degree from home and DH is at home until April at the earliest so she will always have someone here and we will be enrolling her in an online school for English, Maths and Science (if we decide to go through with it).
She has been home educated before due to severe bullying and this school has been good for her, however she hasn't got a single friend still and just wants to be home with me Sad.
A big worry is that the council will give us a back to school order and we'll be forced to send her to the local high school that she already had to leave due to severe bullying. I don't know how likely a scenario this is, though our council don't seem to like home educators very much!
I just don't know what to do for the best. It feels like there is no right answer, please help me to make a decision!

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Beebityboo · 12/11/2020 21:39

If the LA are satisfied, do you have any idea how often they will contact us?

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Nettleskeins · 12/11/2020 21:45

In our case never again...until they were involved in resisting the EHCP.
I think from other friends it is once a year...but usually it would only be because they are genuinely supportive. Your LA should have a section on Elective home education on the website, the education bit..ours does, with a few pointers..

Saracen · 12/11/2020 22:04

Current guidance from DfE tells them to make contact annually where there are no problems, but that this contact could be brief if there is no reason to believe the education has become unsatisfactory. Most LAs are now sticking to this.

So it would be appropriate for you to send a short update telling the LA that you are continuing in similar vein (if you are) and mentioning any changes or giving a few examples of what your child has learned in the previous year. It should be straightforward and quick.

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