teachers can you advise please, 15 YO ill with ME what do the LEA/school have to do about his education?

[yogabird]

My neighbour's friend's son has ME and is at home, school have been 'unhelpful' about sending work home for him to do and will not send a teacher even for short periods to 'top him up' since they would then be unsupervised 1:1 in his house - parents at work. What, if anything, has to be provided and does anyone have any idea of where the parents should go from here?

They have a duty to send work home. I would talk to the local education authority tomorrow and explain. School will get off their lazy arses then.HTH

school should send work but not obliged to provide a teacher, LA usually has resources to deal with the tuition side of things. I'd contact them asap

We would send work home. LEA employs teachers to work with children who are off school long term - it isn't something a school teacher would be able to do I wouldn't have thought.

Our LEA also has an online tuition programme.

Do you have a local hospital school, they might help as well.

The school has a legal obligation to send work home, they don't have to send a teacher.

does the school have to mark and give feedback on the work, do you know, anyone? THanks for the responses too far

Yes the work has to be marked or it does in every school I've worked in. I would assume any competant teacher would give feedback with the marking when necessary.

My daughter, also 15, missed a whole term through illness last year. School were excellent - sent a tutor twice a week more to keep the link with school as she wasn't up to doing any work. LEA have to provide teacher if absence is likely to be more than three weeks iirc, but insisted I was there to supervise - I work full-time. Also, you only get about five hours a week but obviously get more work done one to one.

School were also excellent about allowing her just to turn up when she felt up to it, which wasn't much.

Her work doesn't appear to have suffered but it's had a huge impact on friendships - basically, out of sight, out of mind (we live a long way from school) and that's not really recovered. Suspect boys may be less of a problem!
Best of luck, horrible time for the whole family, still makes me tearful thinking about it a year later.

The school should refer him to the Medical Needs Team who would provide tuition after 3 weeks. In our authority, they are based at the Pupil Referral Unit and cater for children in hospital and at home as well as school refusers/phobics etc. Sounds like the school are not doing their job properly here.

The school/LA have a responsibilty to provide a suitable education.

There's some info here and here

many thanks Saggarmakersbottomknocker, have forwarded the links, I'm sure they'll help