Ms Caroline Poole:

If I do not do it, something drastic could happen. They just seem to say "Okay, we are with you, we will bring him back." and then they say he seems okay but he is not. It is just exhausting to keep ringing them and chasing them. Do they think I want to be doing this? I was happy with the school-age team because as soon as I rang them they went into the school, I went in, and we met to come up with a plan that would work for a while. If that fell through, I would ring them again and the same thing would happen. We are in the system and yet are getting absolutely nothing. I asked them to go into his new school to his autism class. The psychologist went in and she came back out. I feel that just because he is in an autism class that he is forgotten about, and they feel the school can deal with it. It is a new autism class, they are new and as they have said to me themselves, "We are only teachers." They are fantastic teachers but they do not know how to help him. It is the Coke bottle effect: they do not know how to reduce that so they send him home and then he is exploding at home. But we have nobody. Then I will have to send another email and I might get another three more appointments and then we are dropped again. Where do we go from there? If the family has other children who are struggling, a parent cannot split themselves into two to try to look after a new diagnosis plus the child who has been diagnosed from a young age. It is not fair.