Homeschooling and flexi-schooling
Both North and South Lanarkshire have information on their website about home schooling. If you decide to home school your child this becomes their registered school and they are removed from the roll of the school they previously attended. This means that you cannot formally choose to home school your child while waiting on the outcome of a placing request to an ASN school; you would need to keep them enrolled in their current school and then agree a bespoke timetable, or flexi-schooling.
The Scottish Government guidance on home schooling can be found here: https://www.mygov.scot/learning-home-education/home-education-flexi-schooling
And the council webpages are here:
- North Lanarkshire: https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/additional-support-families-and-children/inclusion-services/home-education
- South Lanarkshire: https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200185/supporting_your_child/619/educating_your_child_at_home
In North Lanarkshire an application can be made to the Inclusion team for flexi-schooling which means your child attends school for shorter days, or not at all some days, with you providing educational experiences on the other days. The BBC has a short video about the benefits of flexi-schooling here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcdnjfr#z4wsqyc
South Lanarkshire does not publish information on whether it supports flexi-schooling.