A mum has hit out after her daughter was left without transport to her new school for 14 weeks due to her nut allergy.
Joanne Mahon, aged 40 and a full time carer, is having to spend hours away from her disabled husband to take her child, nine, to and from her special school each day.
Joanne said that she is placing wheelchair-bound Darren at risk of 'choking on his own tongue' at their Erdington home as he also suffers from several 'severe' epileptic fits weekly, as reported by Birmingham Live.
He has also had to cancel a number of medical appointments at hospital, with Mrs Mahon feeling like she has to choose between her "daughter's education or my husband's health".
She said: "I've actually been on the phone to him coming back from Kings Heath and I've literally listened to him swallowing his tongue.
"There's nothing I can do because I'm not supposed to leave him. If he's fitting and I'm on the other side of Birmingham, there's no one to help him or to let anyone in.
"So it's either my daughter's education or my husband's health, I know I've got to think of my daughter's health as well but Travel Assist are for children with disabilities."
The mum-of-three's application for Travel Assist to provide transport for Skye was approved at the end of September.
But due to there not being a member of staff who is EpiPen trained on the school bus for her daughter, the family are still waiting for the much-needed transport months on.
"She would've been off school for nearing 14 weeks if I hadn't been taking her, but then my husband is missing these important appointments," Mrs Mahon said.
"I can't be in two places at once."
Meanwhile, she says, all Skye's classmates are provided with transport to and from school - leaving Skye feeling confused.
"Skye has to have an EpiPen because of her severe nut allergy, because they can't get a guide that is EpiPen trained, they can't do anything," she added.
"It took me just 20 minutes to train with the EpiPen. We've been trying to fight and get it sorted."
She added her husband can't come with her for the school run as they have two other children who are transported to school - and need someone there to let them in.
"If he's fitting, there's no one to let them in either," she continued.
"He's got a lot of hospital appointments that are having to be cancelled. I'm supposed to be with him 24/7 because he's severe epileptic.
"I can't take Skye to the appointments because of Covid, I've got no one else to look after her."
All of the pupils in Skye's class, she said, have transport sorted.
Mrs Mahon added: "She keeps asking me: 'When is my transport being sorted, why do you keep taking me?'
"She has ADHD so she doesn't understand why everyone else has it and she doesn't. It should have been sorted 14 weeks ago."
Birmingham City Council, which runs the Travel Assist service, sympathised with the 'difficult situation' and said it was reviewing options.
A statement from the authority read: "We understand the situation must be difficult for the family and the service is reviewing options to deliver transport in a safe manner given the potential risks in this case.
"We have to make sure suitable transport is put in place, managing the risks appropriately."
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