Advice needed - 16 year old leaving home

[IAmKerplunk]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get some advice please? 16 year old girl has run away from home previously. Home is not a safe place for her but ss keep ‘looking into it’ and doing nothing. Girl is not allowed out of the house on her own, is physically and emotionally abused. She is taking her GCSEs next summer. She wants to leave home as soon as she has taken her GCSEs and go to college. What help and support is there out there for her? She has already been removed from one school because the school asked too many questions. After she last ran away the police returned her home and she went back to her home country despite telling the police she was petrified what would happen when she got there. She is now back in this country and attending a very strict religious school. What can she realistically do once she turns 16?

ETA I know title says she is 16 but she actually turns 16 in a couple of months time

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Final bump - really nobody has any advice regarding this poor girl?

I don't understand why Social Services aren't doing anything.
I think the first place to start is speaking to the Safeguarding Lead at her school.

Is this a Muslim family? Are there any support groups in the local area that can help? It sounds an awful situation.

I am speaking with the old school that she attended as they still have major concerns that now involve a couple of their current students. Her new school will absolutely not do anything. It is an extremely religious school and there are cultural issues at play.

Yes. She has already been forced back to her home country against her will but they returned with her and she now attends an Islam school.

SS have never spoken to her on her own so she was too scared to speak up to them. When she confided in her previous school that’s when her parents removed her.

Is this a state school or a private school?
If they really aren't doing anything then you need to report them to Ofsted or the private school equivalent.
Or even the police. If their Safeguarding Team is refusing to help then that's not on.

If she's in a private Islamic school then its highly likely that the school will support the parents and disregard anything the child says. Contact women's aid, they will definitely have links to the right support services.

The previous school have tried and honestly it is a no go.

I want to know what options she has when she turns 16 and has taken her GCSEs. I have googled for support/advice groups but there are so many I don’t know which ones are any good! Unless I just call them all.
I would have her here in a heartbeat but I don’t have a spare bedroom. She stayed with me for a week when she last ran away - the threats from her family were horrendous. The police and SS were fine with her staying with me - until her SW said that I am at risk of going to prison if I didn’t let her go to her parents. (I wasn’t stopping her leaving - I was ensuring she wasn’t on the streets at 14)

She has it in her head that when she turns 16 she will get a flat and a job and find herself through college (incredibly clever girl) and asked me if I could be guarantor for her - I wouldn’t be accepted even if I wanted too!)

My worry is that she will runaway again and nobody seems to be doing anything - or worse and she will be forced to go back to her home country

Yes I think going directly to the Police, Social Services and Women's Aid (plus any Muslim charities that are similar - sorry I don't know any specific names) should be the start.
@IAmKerplunk Is there anyway you can get her to your home and let her stay?
She NEEDS to talk to the police herself though.
Sorry just read your update.
Talk to the social worker again. Try and get her back to you as a temporary thing.

Bloody hell - I hadn’t thought of Women’s Aid! 🤦🏽‍♀️ Thank you. Going to call them now.
I imagine it is a private school - both parents doctors

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When she stayed with me previously the police were worse than useless. As were SS. Previous school had the same experience.

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ineed to understand why she is running away from home, home is supposed to be her safe place, if parents are abusing her, then the problem is so big, if she close up to her parents, she will need some stanger to trust, and may end up in bad places, so her parents need to understand the sequences of their bad parenting is what made her where she is today.