The ombudsman has ordered the council to repay the boy’s mother more than £1,600 to cover the cost of a private tutor she hired to help her son after his school placement broke down in February 2019.
Ombudsman Michael King found that the council had failed to provide the boy with a suitable school placement in his most recent report on the issue.
It follows a previous report, made by King in 2018, which found the council had failed to place the boy, leaving him out of education for seven months.
Following this first gap in education, the boy was placed in a school in September 2018, however, by December a report by the council’s child psychologist found that he was “considered to be a high risk of further exclusions”.
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