A parent of a teenager has been left ‘disgusted’ after her daughter has been told her school cannot provide her a full education as they are not ‘disabled friendly’.

The woman, who wished to stay anonymous to protect her daughter, said Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Blackburn told her it could not provide full-time education to her seriously injured daughter, who is in Year 11, for more than two hours a day as they cannot ‘adapt the school for her needs’.

Her daughter suffered a broken back before sustaining further injury in a car crash last year that has had a long-term impact on her mobility.

She said: “How can they do this to my child, people need to know and it can’t happen again.

“Yes their building is an old building, and yes everything is on different sides but I am not asking them to adapt the building.

“All I am saying is provide an online lesson for her, if safeguarding is an issue, turn the cameras off.

“They just need to adapt, it working outside the box, it’s telling a child who has been through two trauma’s say ‘don’t worry about school, you have had enough to deal with, let’s see what we can do to make it easier for you'.

“Why is that such a big issue?”

The 15-year-old girl injured her back, breaking six vertebrates last year before succumbing to further injury in a car crash.

Since then, she has been learning online for just one hour a day, except on a Thursday, with St Thomas’s, as Queen Elizabeth Grammar School was unable to provide any education.

In December, the family were told by a doctor the teenager could sit up for two hours a day which they wanted to use for her to go back to school as she is due to sit her GCSEs in the summer.

QEGS said it could accommodate this but nothing more, despite the mother’s pleas for her child to receive a full education.

She asked if the school could provide online lessons but was refused this due to ‘safeguarding’, and then asked if her daughter's teachers could send information about what happened in her missed lessons by email, but was told it would add too much ‘stress and strain’ on staff.

The girl’s mother added: “I’m not trying to put anybody out, I just want them to help my daughter.

“She is not on a level playing field to sit her GCSEs as she is not receiving the same education as her peers but is expected to sit her exams.”

Feeling frustrated, a meeting was set up last month when the family were told that the school could not accommodate her daughter as it was not a ‘disabled friendly school’, but other schools in the Blackburn with Darwen area would be able to accommodate her.

The family were furious by the school’s remarks, with the daughter saying she felt as if the school did not care about her injury and her education.

Her mother added: “I am disgusted, we are in the 21st Century, and what was said there was discrimination.

“You can’t say that – I am not asking them to adapt the building, I am asking for little changes to be made to teach my daughter when she is not in the building.”

Since the meeting, the family have spoken to a solicitor, Ofsted and the Department for Education, however reflecting on the way she was spoken about by staff in the meeting, the teenager has now decided she does not wish to return to the school.

A spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth Grammar School said: "The school does not comment on any stories of this matter.

"All school matters are dealt with as appropriate in accordance with the established, clear and robust procedures and policies."