According to information obtained by ITY News, thousands of children in England, Wales, and Scotland who have additional special needs are not receiving a good education. Many of them are not even accepted into a school, which means they are missing months or even years of learning.

It now impacts pupils who have an education health care plan or EHCP. Local authorities use EHCPs to describe the extra help that children require, but there aren't many special schools in some areas. One parent told us that attending one would be like winning the lottery.

According to ITY News, many of them say that the support system isn't just failing them; it's not functioning at all, even if they are succeeding in getting their child enrolled.

Quddus who is only six years old hasn't attended school in nearly two years. His standard school said it could not meet his needs since he has autism.

He can attend a specialist school, but it's too far away, and Quddus's mother Dare Olaifa-oyeniyi says she wasn't providing the extra help they had been promised.

Therefore, each time I went to the council, they kept on sending me back and telling me that the council wasn't paying it.

I was becoming really angry and furious because he wasn't receiving therapy and they couldn't get him to learn, which meant he wasn't developing his speech still. The council would tell me this every time I went to them.

Since the council has won its appeal and there is currently nowhere else to go, quddus is falling behind in the conference, I reasoned that perhaps this was the incorrect environment and that I might find another one for him.

My concern and fear are about what will ultimately happen to my child, why we are not being heard, why we are blocked, and why he isn't receiving what everyone else has, which is a fundamental right that he refuses to acknowledge.

quddus has an Education Health and Care plan, or EHCP, which is a legal document that defines the extra support a child needs up until the age of 25
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is a fundamental right that he refuses to acknowledge