A family are desperately pleading to be rehoused because two of their children have spent more than a month out of school. Matthew Coombs and Samantha Walsh's nine-year-old son Matthew Jr and five-year-old daughter Ariana have places at a primary in Llantwit Major — but they are unable to attend because the family is living in temporary accommodation 10 miles away.
The couple and their four children were privately renting in St Athan until August when they had to leave their home because their landlord wanted to sell and secured a no-fault eviction. Vale of Glamorgan council placed them in a three-bedroom flat in Barry which is outside the catchment area for Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, the school attended by Matthew and Ariana.
Mr Coombs, 36, said: "The kids just want to go to school and be with their friends and get educated, and the system doesn't want to do anything about it. They've not been at school at all for over a month and they haven't been regularly since we've been here... Our whole family is in Llantwit Major and it feels like we've been placed in the middle of nowhere."
