“I keep telling my daughter ‘it is going to be okay’ and I’m thinking: ‘I don’t know if it is going to be okay.’'
A 12-year-old girl who has self-harmed after being bullied at primary has been refused a request to go to a secondary near her home - while her allocated school is an hours journey away.
The 41-year-old decided to pay for a psychologist so her child could get counselling as the NHS CAMHS service wasn’t available at the time. The academy is only 10 minutes away on the bus - while the catchment school Smithycroft Secondary is over an hour away. The thought of travelling such a long distance to Smithycroft fills the pupil with worry.
“Because our postcode is G64 we are in Bishopbriggs but I pay Glasgow city council tax and not East Dunbartonshire. We were not automatically enrolled. I put in a placement request as soon as possible and received an email saying it was refused.” "The council must therefore apply its policies in a fair and consistent way across the board, which unfortunately means we cannot always grant a place to a child where a placing request application has been made.”
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