Moving area - want to home school.

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Ds (7) HFA. Fully statemented, in MS, has 32 hours one to one at the moment but is only getting mornings right now as they have not been able to find a suitable TA to support him in the afternoons. We have just been turned down for a School School place and tbh I am not convinced it would have been the right place for him anyway.

The only place he seems happy and content in himself is at home. At school he is learning nothing and I mean nothing. He becomes aggressive, is restrained and I feel that the teachers that have lost patience. Twice now he has come home with bruises and scratches on his face and marks on his arms apparently due to him having to be restrained. He is never like this at home. The child they talk about is not the child that I know.

I want to home ed him. We are moving areas in next month or two. What happens when we move. Do I even have to let the new LEA know we are in the area? If I do and they can't find him a suitable place surely he will just be at home anyway so I can just continue with that?

Anyone else done this, what do I need to know with regard to LEA and legalities. Many thanks. Will post this in HE as well.

when you move into a area-you have to let them know youre there!
you then can inform them that you are going to home school!
if you dont let them know-they can prossacute you as they see it as you refusing to let youre child go to school!
right-having said this-be careful as when it comes to special needs-people get funny and some dont like the thought of home schooled children with special needs!
i dont want to scare you-but they may even send the jolly ol social services round to you!
they might even tell you that by home schooling youre child-you have lost youre entitelement to other"services"!
hopefully none of this will happen[and i hope it dont]but be aware of what could happen!
the other point of it may be is-they might say that he needs to be in school because of the social side of things!
good luck!

The website detailed below may be useful to you:-

www.education-otherwise.org/SEN.htm

Thanks very much have recieved some excellent info on here and other thread.

Looks like we are going to do it. A bit scared but excited as well.

oh i forgot to mention[sorry]
Directgov-might have some info on there aswell!

Go for it!

I read on one HE thread when people asked her wasn't it hard / stressful looking home educating your children - and she replied 'not as stressful as sending them to school where I knew they were unhappy'

Tell us how it all goes.

I home-edded DS1 for a while, during which period we moved house to a new area. At the time he was diagnosed with 'school related anxiety leading to Asperger type symptoms'. Anyhow at the time he was just coming back from school not eating and lying on the sofa moaning all evening so as the school were being soooo unhelpful I decided to home-ed him. It is the school's responsibility to inform the LEA you are home-edding, and I guess it is up to you if you remind them of that when you pull your DS from school (I think that is only different if they are in a SN school rather than ms, but you would need to check as he is statemented).
I informed his paediatrician and CAMHS and they were both very supportive of me removing him (once they had checked that he was still going to be allowed to meet other people).
I found the LEA very supportive (I know this isn't the case for everybody) once I got to know them! Their first letter I thought very rude - we are coming to your house on this date to assess your level of education. I wrote and said "No you aren't, DS suffers from anxiety and I am not having him being worried in his own house" so they said we could meet at the LEA building. at meeting showed all the work he had done and they were very surprised at my organisation and that he was working (some worksheets and some just evidence of learning through play - eg we went to beach today and threw stones in a pool and counted these stones as we threw them). DS has problems writing and was under OT but LEA lady helped with providing me with a handwriting scheme for him.
Anyhow, when we moved I never told the old/new LEA, but it wasn't long before I put him in a new school. I did get letter to old house requesting another meeting, I wrote and said we had moved. I don't know if they notified new LEA or not.