Making the spoons last longer: Parents’ views on flexischooling with their child with SEN

Lawrence, C., Paxman, J., Purle, K. and Lawrence, C. (2025) Making the spoons last longer: Parents’ views on flexischooling with their child with SEN. British Journal of Special Education. ISSN 0952-3383

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Abstract

Flexischooling – the sharing of a child’s education between home and school through formal agreement – is one of a range of ‘alternative’ education approaches that may adapt education to meet a child’s Special Educational Needs (SEN). This study considers qualitative data from an online survey conducted during November and December 2023 regarding parents’ reasons for undertaking flexischooling with their child, and the activities they describe their children undertaking during school hours. Findings suggest that parents are concerned about the challenges that they feel their child faces in full-time school, but that they also perceive advantages, both social and academic, to the ‘not-school’ element of the educational approach they are undertaking. Consideration of the potential for flexischooling to support parents as they learn about their child’s ever-changing needs is discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published by Wiley in 2025. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12577. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. © 2025 The Author(s).
Keywords:	Flexischooling, SEND, parents
Divisions:	School of Teacher Development
Depositing User:	Clare Lawrence
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2025 12:15
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2025 09:36
URI:	https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1197

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