What job do you do if you home educate?

[Madreamigajefa2]

Single parent here, with a special needs child who all special schools so far have said they can't meet need. If they can't accommodate, my child can't stay in mainstream any longer. However, I was planning to buy a house soon so I will need an income. I'll need to home school during the day. What work from home jobs do you do if you also home school? My ex will have that children some evenings and weekends so I could fit work in then. I have lots of corporate experience but typically those jobs are 9-5.30, M-F. Thanks for any ideas.

Home ed parents I know are:
Online tutors
Cleaners
Hair dressers/beauticians
Home based NHS workers
Dog sitters
Work evening or weekend shifts doing supermarket work, warehouse work, nannying
Childminders

Are you planning to home educate or will you get EOTAS if all schools are unsuitable?

we slice the day in half, man works afternoons, I work mornings, plus he was able to support us all the last decade and a half on his salary only and we have chosen the smallest cheapest most convenient mortgage around, so that how we do it

You can do the actual education at any times that suit your family, so you don't have to be educating your child M-F 9-3 or anything like that. That means that if you can find suitable childcare (childminder or nanny for example), you might still be able to do your corporate job part-time.

If you explore that option, reassure any potential CMs that you only want childcare, not education. Many CMs balk at the idea of taking on school-aged children during the daytime, imagining that they would have to be teaching them or at least enforcing handwriting practice and helping the child plough through maths worksheets. Tell them that you are only looking for someone to keep your child safe and happy while you work.

Thank you. I don't know if I have it in me to do another battle. The mainstream school are claiming they can meet need despite failing to consistently administer medication, failing to consistently provide adjustments in the EHCP such as ESR defenders and fidgets, and child as a result not wanting to attend. I don't want my child left in mainstream any longer and EHCP coordinator refuses to acknowledge the evidence they aren't meeting need. If EOTAS could be immediate then if do it but if it's a case of waiting until my child is breaking in school hours, I'm not willing to push them to that point.

If provision detailed, specified and quantified in F of the EHCP isn’t being provided and the LA (ultimately it is the LA who is responsible for ensuring provision in F is provided) is ignoring you, have you looked at a pre-action letter.

You say SS have said they can’t meet needs, but if any of them are not wholly independent, what do you think? Non-wholly independent schools can be named even if the school objects.

The test for EOTAS/EOTIS via the EHCP is that it is inappropriate for provision to be made in a school. This does not require the child to breakdown in school first, or for DC to have even attended school at all, and it doesn’t require the school to say they can’t meet needs either. However, to get a good package, many have to appeal to SENDIST when they have the right of appeal.

In the meantime, if you don’t want to EHE and DD is unable to attend school, you could look at s19 provision. Again, this doesn’t require the child to breakdown in MS first or for the school to say they can’t meet needs.

The EHCP coordinator has contacted schools I totally disagree with in terms of being able to meet need. There's one outstanding maintained response and I feel that school should meet need but the independent schools all saying no (despite spaces) has shocked me into believing they'll say no too, and I honestly can't see my child get to Christmas asking still either for a different school or me to homeschool as she does now, and he no further forward. My child has moderate learning difficulties but it's a complex mix with medical needs thrown in. I'm ready to do whatever it takes the moment the final no comes in

If you haven’t already, it is a good idea to contact the schools consulted yourself. I would do this with the maintained one so you know they have an accurate picture.

Is the LA sticking to the timescales?

Do you think any of the independent schools can meet needs? If so, if any are section 41 independent schools, you can still pursue them being named. Even if they aren’t s41 independent schools, if you think they can meet needs, it is worth contacting them to discuss their concerns.

One, preferred, independent, was contacted after school hours with the consultation request on the last day of term before a 2 week break with an additional inset day... Over a month after I requested it and 2 weeks after they had send their costings. Of course , they only get 15 days. I have my suspicions this was deliberate because the coordinator is very unprofessional. I have asked for them to elaborate on their comments as to why they cannot meet need as it's beyond bizarre to me, but so far they haven't.

Is the school wholly independent or a section 41 independent? That is importantly for you to know because the rules are different.

It's not section 41. They responded closing down questions