An autistic boy was left "withdrawn" after local authority failures meant him missing four months of school. The "bright pupil" missed being in education and the interaction with his peers after being left out of education for weeks.
Now Salford City Council has paid the boy's mother more than £3,000 after she took legal action against it, reports the Manchester Evening News. She was awarded compensation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, which ruled there was 'delay and poor communication' by the cauthority over the issuing of the child's education and health care plan (EHCP).
It also found there was also a failure by the council under the terms of the Children and Families Act 2014 to provide alternative education for the boy once the authority was aware that he had been out of school for 15 days. In a report the Ombudsman said that the boy, named as 'B', was diagnosed with autism in 2018.
