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

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.

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Kellie says the lack of classroom time for Nicholas has left him unable to write his own name. She has also been forced to quit her job to look after him during the day, and is struggling more now that he doesn't receive free school meals.

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 full name properly or read properly.

"He's being tested for ADHD now and a plan is going to be put in place to help him. I