A MUM is in an “impossible situation” after her second child was refused a place at the school next door to her home.

Sophie Krailing lives in the same road as St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Somerford, where her eldest child Kirah, six, is currently in year one.

But she was left stunned when her four-year-old daughter Ella was refused a place at St Joseph’s and allocated a place at Burton Primary School instead – some two miles from her home.

Sophie, who doesn’t drive and also has a seven-month-old baby boy, said she has no way of getting Kirah and Ella to two different schools for the same time and is now being forced to consider taking Kirah out of St Joseph’s.

She said: “I assumed Ella would get into St Joseph’s because Kirah’s already there and because we live next door to it.

“I was a bit confused when I saw we had been allocated Burton instead, I wasn’t sure if they had got it wrong.

“But I spoke to the headmistress and she said it was my fault because I hadn’t enclosed my daughter’s baptism certificate with the form.

“I just sat there and cried. I didn’t know you had to provide the certificate, otherwise I would have done so.

“I honestly don’t know what to do now.

“It is an impossible situation. Even if I could drive, there is no way I could get them both to different schools at the same time. And walking is even more difficult, because it’s a two mile trip down a dual carriageway and I’ve got a young baby too.”

A Dorset County Council spokesman said: “St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is its own admissions authority and therefore decisions about which children are offered places are made by the school.

“The school is also limited by the number of school places it can offer under infant class size legislation; this limits class sizes for infants to 30, except in exceptional circumstances.

“If Mrs Krailing wishes to challenge the school’s decision she should use the appeal process, which ensures an independent panel will look at their case objectively.”

A spokesperson for the school said: “Places are offered in accordance with our admissions’ policy which very clearly outlines the necessary documentation.”