'I spent £20k fighting the council to get my disabled son in school and I'm not alone' Councils are fighting legal battles against parents of disabled children to delay paying higher support bills, lawyers say. 🔴 EXCLUSIVE from jessiehewitson
Albie Gill is eight. He has a severe speech and language disorder, as well as ADHD and dyspraxia.
Mark and his wife Shelley, 42, raised concerns with their local council, Sutton in south London, that their son was in an unsuitable school. Councils are obliged by law to assess a child for potential special educational needs and to pay for any support they require. Parents who don’t agree with the support they are offered – if any – can go to the Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunal , where a judge will listen to both sides and come to a decision.
New research shows that local authorities spent £73m in a single year defending legal appeals about support for children with special educational needs, only to lose 96.4 per cent of cases.
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