My situation is complicated with children at school in differerent towns.
Place shortages mean I can't see this situation changing, we are on all the waiting lists amd are being dealt wo by Education Entitlement Team too as a last resort (who I can't really recommend as they are uncontactabke and just seem to be advocates for ideas rather than breaking red tape and forcing change). I can't afford to move back to the town my eldest child schools in for financial amd personal safety reasons and so transfer my youngest to her school and solve the travel issue problem.
She's been a year on the waiting list for her brother's school where he's just begun Reception. She won't get a place it's looking like, not after this long.
As I'm currently on benefits, and don't drive, I'm struggling to pay the £35 a week in bus fares, really struggling, to a point were I'm happy to do full disclosure here : I have £4 in my bank and a few pounds in my purse. My next benefits come in on Friday. My electric meter has gone into emergency (I'm on meters). So for the last two days I simply haven't been able to afford to bus her into school. She has Cooking on Mondays and was devastated.
As far as I can see, I just can't afford to get her to Schoo. She isn't entitled to free transport because I stupidly turned the first school they offered us when I first moved here as it was the 3rd furthest away and I just assumed I should wait for the beast school to be offered. At that time, I didn't know about In Year Admission procedures or school place shortages :/
So Flexi Schooling seems workable as it would only be until she starts Juniors next year.
But how does this work?
Can anyone tell me their experiences of Flexi Schooling ie how they applied, what their headteacher involvement was, how their child's development fared, what circumstances prompted it, and so on?
I'm in quite a desperate situation.
Thankyou