Mum's £40 daily school run bill

FAMILY RELOCATED INTO TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FORCED TO USE UBERS FOR SON'S EDUCATION

- By CHARLOTTE HALL

AN Oldham mum had to fork out £40 a day on Ubers to get her son to school after being moved into temporary accommodation miles away from her home.

The 27-year-old, who has been named 'Leyla' to protect her identity, was left facing homelessness when her landlord decided to up her rent by almost £400 a month - from £600 to just under a thousand.

At an already challenging time in her life, when she was relocated to Harpurhey with her four-year-old son, she was faced with another big complication.

Her son's school, once down the road, was suddenly a two-hour walk away. And the convoluted journey on public transport - two trams and a bus - could take up to an hour and a half.

"I didn't know the area. I'd never really been out of Oldham until then," Leyla told the M.E.N. "And I was kind of panicking because I'd always had family around before and suddenly it was just me and my son."

Though she tried to get her son to school on buses and trams - already costing her upwards of £9 a day - she struggled to get him in on time for the school bell.

Leyla said: "The school started noticing he was late a lot. They knew what our situation was, but they were still calling me in for meetings. That's why I ended up getting Ubers, so I could get him there on time."