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A 12-year-old boy who has Autism has spent months out of the classroom and is now facing a new battle to get transport to his new special school. Charlie Bowe was forced to leave mainstream education just weeks into year seven as his school couldn't meet his needs, according to his family.
However, despite his last lesson being in October, Charlie technically remained on roll for several months afterwards. He had no work sent home for him since then and his mum Samantha Bowe has said: "It was affecting his mental health. He was really upset.”
They lodged a special needs tribunal and, following that, he was offered a place at a special needs school. StokeonTrentLive reported that Samantha says that the school, Abbey Hill, is "the best place for him" and Charlie started there last week.
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But now Samantha has been forced to give up her job so she can drive him from their home in Trentham every day to the special school four miles away. She says Stoke-on-Trent City Council refused to provide school transport. Instead, officials offered the family a personal budget of £15.38 a day to sort out taxi arrangements themselves.
“I started ringing round taxi services and they were all saying they couldn’t take him,” said Samantha. “Either they didn’t do school runs, they were fully booked or they said he was too young to take them without a chaperone.
“Even if they could have taken him, I was getting quotes off some of them for £50 a day.”
She discovered another Abbey Hill pupil, who lives in Staffordshire County Council’s area, qualifies for a minibus to get to school and travels through Trentham. But as this
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