North Yorkshire project supporting children unable to cope at school
Families of neurodivergent children who no longer access mainstream education are coming together to get support
Parents of children with additional needs are telling us about the judgement they feel - if their child is unable to cope at school.
Vanessa Beckett runs a project in York called "the land" for families to take part in wellbeing activities and get support.
She explains her eldest did go to primary school - but it was terrible for his mental health:
"He couldn't go out to play. He couldn't eat his food. He couldn't take his coat off. He'd spend the whole session in the corridor."
She says too often there is parental blame: "Unless you've walked in our shoes and lived our lives, I don't think you can understand. I might have been one of them types of people. If I hadn't got the children I had now.
"We try to connect families that have got children out of education and have felt quite isolated and didn't realise that there was other families in the same situation."
"So we try to connect them through bringing them together through craft sessions, sharing and talking while we're crafting, and also connecting their children at a time and place that's ready for them."