Young boy unable to write own name after being excluded and left without school place
22.09.2022 - 18:14
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A young boy left without a school place for three weeks is unable to write his full name due to the lack of schooling, his fuming mum has claimed.
Kellie Lees, 35, has hit out at her local council for failing to provide an adequate education for her son Nicholas Bailey, seven, after he was expelled three-weeks before the summer holidays.
The mum-of-four is now worried about Nicholas' education as he has gone a lengthy time without being in school, despite other children returning this month.
The schoolboy was expelled from the Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff, in Fenton for behavioural reasons. His mum has been pushing for years to have Nicolas tested for ADHD and this is finally happening.
StokeOnTrentLive reports that Kellie has now criticised Stoke-on-Trent City Council for leaving Nicholas without any schooling for so long. She claims her son has been left without a regular education since he started year two, as he was reduced to half-days at the school, and then one-hour days - before being permanently excluded.
And now carer Kellie, from Stoke-onTrent, has had to quit her job in order to look after her son. To make matters worse, the mum says he no longer receives his free school meals either.
Kellie said: "I have been asking for help and for him to be tested for ADHD ever since he started in nursery. The school kept telling me that he couldn't get tested until he turned seven.
"But he just got worse and worse at school. While he was in year two he was suspended. Then he went back and they put him on half-days, but then he was suspended again.
"He was then in school for one hour a day and after that he was permanently excluded from the school. He hasn't learnt anything at school for the past year, he can't even write his