A Langley mother has risked prosecution after keeping her daughter away from school since March - to protect the health of her own vulnerable mother.

Dr Ambily Banerjee's daughter Aditi, 15, is a pupil at Langley Grammar School.

Aditi lives with her mother, her dad Subhranil and grandmother Dolly in Langley Road.

Dolly, 69, who is clinically vulnerable and registered disabled is a well known figure in the village, having founded Living in Harmony wellbeing group and run it for five years.

Dr Banerjee works for a pharmaceutical company and says the whole family have been shielding since March because they fear passing the Coronavirus onto Dolly,

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She says Langley Grammar School reacted by referring her daughter's case to Slough Children's services.

She said: "As a parent I have been made to feel awful, accused of being abnormally anxious, for being cautious during a pandemic."

She says she has spoken to a senior social worker who has accepted her daughter is coping well in the circumstances.

Dr Banerjee said: "She is fully engaged with the world, and has been involved in lots of voluntary activities online, including creating the weekly video newsletters for the Slough Council for Voluntary Services."

But she says the school still refused to reverse its decision to classify her as an unauthorised absentee.

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Now, following conversations with the local authority attendance officers and the headteacher, Doctor Banerjee says she was forced to accept that her daughter would only get the predicted grades she needed for her GCSEs if she came in to sit her mock exams this week.

She said: "She will need the predicted grades in case GCSEs are cancelled.

"We feel uncomfortable about this but have no choice but to work with the school to ensure Aditi is safe at school for the few hours she attends."

Doctor Banerjee believes that many families living in multigenerational homes face her dilemma, when several schools in Slough have identified Covid cases.

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She said: "They are asking me to choose between my daughter's education and my mother's health."

John Constable, the headteacher at Langley Grammar School, said: "Throughout the pandemic we have followed the published guidance from the Department for Education and Public Health England, and taken additional measures, to reduce the risk of virus transmission, make the school as safe as possible for all students and staff, and minimise the impact when there have been the inevitable confirmed cases of COVID-19.

"Where families have had concerns about meeting the Government’s legal requirement for school attendance, we have worked with them to explain how we are operating and to try to provide reassurance. We have been very grateful for the overwhelming support of our parents and the excellent attendance levels from students across all year groups.

"However, it would be inappropriate for us to comment publicly on the circumstances of any individual family.”