‘A desperate mother has been told by a top judge that her teenage son cannot live with her because she is an advocate of home schooling.
The mother-of-four, in her 50s, says her son is being ‘deprived of his liberty’ by being forced to attend a conventional school.
She told London’s Appeal Court she had home-schooled the disabled teenager for 10 years, along with two of her other children.
But, after he was admitted to hospital as an in-patient in 2011, she was informed by Northamptonshire County Council that the boy would not be allowed to return to the family home – because her alternative stance on education was ‘not in his best interests’.’
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