In the seaside town of Whitby, north Yorkshire, 13-year-old Evie bounces into the home she shares with her grandparents full of excitement after a school theatre trip to Durham. “It's a joy to see,” says her grandmother and legal guardian Jo Morris. “A year ago she struggled to step foot inside the school gates let alone take part in extra-curricular activities.”
Morris says the turnaround in Evie's attitude to school is due to flexi-schooling – the practice where parents choose to home educate their children for part of the week.
“She wasn't coping with the transition to secondary school and this, combined with the fact she's autistic and has dyslexia, led her on a downward spiral,” says Morris. “She cried every day before school and became ill – not eating, making herself sick and self-harming.”
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