New thread started as advised.
We gave notice for ds to leave his independent school (personal reasons) at the end of the summer term. An in year application was made to our LA for a year 9 place beginning of March for our 4 nearest schools. No schools were offered and no school places available in the whole borough.
Now we are in June I was getting concerned there was still no news and coming up to the end of the academic year I decided to call them twice.
I told them As of 7th July my ds would have no school as they would have broke up. Still no school places available in the borough and the LA are saying they won't be looking into it until July. I have asked whether he would have a school place in Sept and if not how long will he be out of school and they said 3 weeks maybe he would be out of school. But honestly I don't think they actually know.
My question is why should a child start school later then everyone else despite given ample notice. Surely it's advisable to find something prior to Sept so that we could liase with school and sort out gcse options, uniform etc. Now he probably won't start til oct missing out on possible vital info.
If there are still no school spaces in July how will they go about finding a space and where and how long will it all take.