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Mum quits job after son, 7, excluded and left without school for months

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The mother of a seven-year-old boy has been forced to quit her carer job after her son was expelled from school. Kellie Lees, 35, says her son Nicholas, was expelled from the Co-op academy Clarice Cliff, in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, for behavioural reasons more than three weeks before schools broke up for the summer holidays.

He still does not have a school place ten weeks later - despite children returning to education this month, StaffordshireLive reports.

Kellie says Nicholas has been missing 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.

She has also been calling for her son to be tested for ADHD for years, which is finally happening. READ MORE: Yellow buses, weekly fare caps and better policing: Andy Burnham's Bee Network unveiled Kellie says the lack of classroom time for Nicholas has left him unable to write his own name.

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