Family awarded £5,300 after education faults

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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