what are my rights as a PGCE student?

I apologise if this comes over as very stressed, and garbled, I am genuinely in a very distressed state, and basically panicking. If anyone has any advice, or contacts I would be terribly grateful. I have not mentioned the names of specific institutions of course but I will go so far as to say I am in the southwest of England

I have been doing a part time PGCE in post compulsory education, and if all had gone according to plan, I would have been finishing this month.

When I started, in 2007, I was working as a paid tutor in Adult and Community Learning, but I was told that I needed, for the PGCE, to work with learners on an accredited course (rather than unaccredited evening classes). I was verbally told I "should" have a small placement at a local college, but when it came to two weeks before I was due to start (at the beginning of my second year, my PGCE tutor (not me) was emailed to say there was no placement for me, and when I complained, another member of staff in that department whom I had spoken to several times, claimed never to have heard of me. I was told I could not continue my PGCE (I was left to phone all the local schools and sixth forms to try and find myself a placement, far too late in the year, they said they were all full and anyway that it was the job of my university to arrange the placements, not me). Eventually, my tutors found me a placement in another college.

I served two terms there, with no apparant problems of which I was aware and good feedback from staff, tutors and students. I of course have had to apply to extend my PGCE over a third year to get the required amount of teaching practice, but I was not too worried, as this college had said I could continue my placement. My tutors and I had this in writing this time! And now I have been told that due to a department restructuring, there is no placement availble to me after all.

I am required to finish the PGCE in three years, that is the maximum to which it can be extended, and I am now looking at the third year. I dont know what to do, I have spoken to my tutors, and others at the university,and have again emailed all the local schools and sixth forms, I have already had several "no we are full"s back. I have also contacted the local volunteer bureau and jobcentre, as well as posting my CV on Monster.com. I am heartbroken as through the PGCE despite the problems, I have found that I really love teaching, and would really like this to be a long term, lifelong career. I would have wasted two years of student debt and fallen in love with a career aim, all for nothing. I am terribly upset, and not sure what to do. If I had done something wrong I could understand, but I have only ever had people being positive about my teaching, using words like "impressive" and "excellent".

To be fair I think my tutors began making some enquiries yesterday, but I have lost all trust in the academic process of the PGCE.

I dont know if there is anything else I can be doing, or places to contact. or if anyone has any suggestions.