Family awarded £5,300 after Wokingham Council education faults

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A council paid out £5,300 to a family after a boy did not receive the appropriate support it had agreed he should have had for a year.Wokingham Borough Council agreed to pay the money after multiple failures, including the boy not having the appropriate number hours of tuition for the entire 2022/23 academic year.It had also agreed to supply the boy with a learning support assistant, who would help him for 30 hours a week, but his mother was left to supply that herself.The local authority was approached to comment following the Local Government Ombudsman's (LGO) findings.
It was also found to have not provided a "substantive response" to the boy's mother until she had brought her case to the LGO's attention nearly a year ago.The LGO said the boy and his mother suffered a "significant injustice" as a result of the council's failings. The authority itself proposed £4,700 was given to the family in recognition of the provision the boy missed. It also will give £300 each to the mother and the boy to recognise the impact on them.
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