Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council has admitted it failed to act upon three complaints made by the mother of the boy to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman between 2016 and 2018.
As a result it has agreed to pay her £1,000 in place of missed behaviour therapy support and the distress caused to herself and the child, and to review its procedures for monitoring SEND provision.
A report into the investigation revealed that in 2016 the council failed to deliver speech and language therapy and occupational therapy the boy had been assessed as needing, because it included this information in a "delegated funding agreement" rather than his statement of special educational needs.
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