A MUM is growing increasingly concerned at not being able to get her 15-year-old daughter into a school.
Charlie Morgan hasn't been to school since the end of the last academic year in July 2012.
Her mum Kelly Morgan stopped her going to Carlton Academy as she claims she was being bullied.
But efforts to find her a school where she could start Year 10 last September proved fruitless.
And more than six months on Charlie is still not in a school.
Miss Morgan is worried she is falling too far behind and it will badly affect her chances of gaining good results in her GCSEs, which she should be sitting in just more than a year.
Miss Morgan, of Netherfield, said: "I refused to let my daughter go to a school where she was being badly bullied.
"I have tried to get her into others like Arnold Hill Academy, Carlton le Willows and the Sherwood E-Act Academy.
"My applications were rejected and I have had appeals turned down.
"It's so frustrating. I need to get my daughter into a school urgently. She is missing out."
Miss Morgan said she had left her job as a computer salesman as a result of her daughter's school absence.
She has contacted the county council for help but most of the schools in the area are now academies – which are free from local authority control and set their own admissions criteria.
Arnold Hill says if applications are made mid-term they will be offered subject to availability.
If there are no places in the relevant year, the child is added to the waiting list.
Carlton le Willows has a similar policy.
Miss Morgan, 35, added: "I've been told the academies are full but I do not want my child going back to a school where she has been bullied."
She said Charlie had been targeted in the last school year after sticking up for a friend who was also being bullied.
She was taken out of school for a week but Miss Morgan claims the bullying, some of it physical, continued when she went back.
No one from the academy was available for comment.
On its website, it says that teachers are expected to deal with issues of bullying when they are made aware of them.
John Slater, Notts County Council's service director for education standards and inclusion, said: "We have been working closely with Kelly and Charlie to secure a suitable school place and we hope to resolve this situation as soon as possible."
