LISA Parkin has been desperately fighting for a school place for her four-year-old daughter Evie Parkin since September. The youngster has missed out on 82 school days, or 17 weeks.
Evie was enrolled at Peel Park Primary before she and her mum were moved from Providence Row, Undercliffe, by Bradford Council for environmental health reasons.
Miss Parkin, 25, said the property was too damp for her daughter, who had bilateral pneumonia and suffers from severe asthma.
She took Evie to Peel Park Primary for the first week from the new family home in Cavendish Road, Idle, but said it cost too much on the bus and that the 4.4-mile round trip on foot was too far for Evie to walk because of her illness.
She reapplied for schools in BD10 but was told all the schools were full.
Miss Parkin, who gave up her job in a Morrisons cash office last April when Evie's free nursery place ran out, said: “She is missing out on a first year of school. I have been buying her books and she is at home full-time. I am just trying to fight for a place in school for her. This will effect her future.”
“She is asking everyday, ‘Am I going to school?’." When we are picking nieces and nephews up, she says ‘can I go to this school?’.
A Council spokesman said: “It would not be appropriate for us to comment on an individual case. We work with all parents in trying to find a suitable school place when a family moves house and if their nearest school is oversubscribed.”
Cllr Ralph Berry said: “When a system is very full, we have less flexibility in these kind of situations. I feel for her.”
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