The local education authority have made a decision about “what is best” for Little Nutter.

They have offered him a place at the local state nursery that has provision for children with special educational needs.

HURRAH! you might say… but no.

This nursery place is for five half days a week. He can only attend if someone could remove him from his current, excellent day care nursery, transport him to the state nursery for the proposed hours, and then return him to the day care nursery.

“No problem,” said the authority. “We can arrange a taxi.”

Yes, that’s right, a TAXI for a three year old autistic child. ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS????

We want him to stay where he is – we have every intention of paying for it! The paediatricians, speech therapists and child psychologists all agree that he is better off where he is. And removing him from the nursery that has been so good for him since he was four months old will be unnecessarily cruel, damage the progress he has been making, and utterly destroy any possible benefits specialist educational therapy can make.

And the authority say that they didn’t know that both parents worked, and were unable to transport him to and from places during the day. I consider that to be absolute and undeniable proof that they did not read the information submitted to them by the healthcare professionals and by Darling Wifey and myself.

They are going to reverse the decision. They will be given a chance to do so nicely, with everyone happy and reasonable and co-operative. They will understand this. What they will not do is mess my autistic child around just because it is easy.