Briana Welling didn't get a place at the school her family wanted after losing out in a lottery to another child in the same block of flats.

Now her mum Becky Kane, 24, has been allocated a reception class place for Briana, who had just turned four, at a school 45 minutes' walk away – in the wrong direction.

Ms Kane wanted her daughter to remain at Fairfurlong Primary in Withywood, where she is in the nursery class.

Briana's grandad takes her to school with his own son, who is also a pupil there. This allows Ms Kane to work full-time as a health care assistant. Now she has been offered Perry Court Infant School in Hengrove, which she says is not on a direct bus route from her home in Rowan House in Hartcliffe.

Ms Kane said: "If Briana can't go to Fairfurlong, I need her to have a place near my dad. There must be schools that have places – but none of the ones close to my home do."