By Lucy Ashton
Mothers in West Dunbartonshire are complaining about the education provision for special needs children.
Jade Reilly O’Brien has suggested the Council should open another school for these children.
She said: “Maybe you should open another specialist school for children with learning difficulties.
“My family and many others are being forced to send their children into mainstream education when it’s not suited to their needs.
“It is absolutely despicable the lengths we are having to go to to fight this with no satisfactory outcome in sight.
“At the moment only 31 places are avaliable and 51 are needed. My daughter has very little language; needs personal care and is in the process of being assessed for Autism and ADHD.
“And I am being forced to put her in mainstream education while her educational psychologist doesn’t care about our concerns.
“And that’s not even to get into the sensory overload, she can’t sit still and so on. It’s an absolute shambles. These kids are being let down.”
Kirsty Connolly said: “I think the whole education side is a joke. Everything is being cut and and cut again. The kids are getting everything stripped from them, it’s an absolute disgrace but [the Council] will spend stupid money elsewhere. Joke all round.”
Jade Reilly O’Brien:”I know it’s disgusting. I mean Aurora can’t even get 1-1 support in mainstream because of the cuts.
“It’s so so bad they are majorly letting these kids down who deserve the best possible start to their school education and won’t have their needs met within mainstream.”
West Dunbartonshire Council refused to comment.
If the Communications Office refuse to speak on these matters then the Chief Education Officer Laura Mason and the education committee convener Councillor Clair Steel should refuse to support the ban on speaking to The Democrat.