A furious mum has hit out at her autistic daughter's school after she was found wandering the streets alone with her bike.
The mum was horrified after she found school teachers let her six-year-old daughter out of the school gates alone without an adult.
The girl was found by a family friend riding her bike on her own about "ten minutes" from the school at pick up time on Friday afternoon.
The school has admitted allowing the Primary 2 child to leave the school grounds on her own, and described the situation as "regrettable" as it launches an investigation into how it happened.
But the 30-year-old mum, who is from Hull and does not wish to be named, said she's lost all faith and has pulled her two children from Marfleet Primary Academy, she told Hull Live.
She said: "I got a phone call off a lady who I know to say she had her. I was really shocked as to how she had my child when you have to have a password at the gate to let them out.
"I was just walking to school as pick up time is 3pm until 3.15pm. I got there to find she was ten minutes away from the school, near a main road on her bike.
"She has autism and has no road safety at all, which the school know.
"I asked what had happened and she told me her name got called, so she got her coat and got her bike she started to ride off."
After contacting the school, the mum was left further angered after being told the teacher "assumed" her child had gone off with another pupil's mum.
The mum-of-four now saws the school is trying to 'blame' her daughter for the shocking error.
She added: "I rang the school up to get a phone call back from the head teacher who told me that the two teachers assumed she was leaving with her friends' mum, as they know I speak to her.
"They let her out because they assumed she was going with her. I’m absolutely disgusted, it’s a breach of safeguarding. It’s always me that picks her up, no one else and the school know this.
"Then I got another phone call from her teacher who let her out, saying they shouted of another two girls, not my daughter.
"But my daughter has cried and told me it was definitely her name they shouted, so my question to the head was 'if they shouted another girl's name, like they are saying, why did they allow my child to get ready and leave the school gates?'
"They would have said 'no [girl's name], we didn’t shout you, sit down,' but they didn’t.
"They are trying to blame her. I’m trying my best to reassure her that it's not her fault."
The mum says she has now been forced to remove both her daughters from the school because she has "lost all faith" they will keep them safe.
She added: "I have lost all faith in the school to safeguard my children. The last thing I need is to be sat at home thinking my children are in their classroom, when they're really being let out and left wondering around.
"I have put in a school transfer to move my children. I feel like we send our kids to school thinking they are safe when they are not.
"I feel like if I allow my girls to go back that I’m basically saying 'they're coming back, it’s fine what you’ve done.'"
The school says a "thorough investigation" is being carried out to make sure this cannot happen again.
However the mum said it's too late, because the damage has already been done.
She added: "I don’t see what an investigation is going to do, the teachers are still there and teaching.
"That’s solved nothing. The damage has already been done.
"It could have been a different story if my daughter didn’t see someone she knew. I could have still been looking for my daughter now.
A spokesperson for Ebor Academy Trust, which runs the school, said: "Regrettably, a pupil was allowed to leave school grounds on her own on Friday.
"This was a mistake on our part for which we have apologised.
"We take the safety of all our children very seriously and the trust is carrying out a thorough investigation to ensure there will be no further occurrences of this situation."
