Somerset Council will pay £1,000 in compensation after failing to properly assess a child's needs.
The council was also ordered to provide additional training on handling parent's requests for all relevant staff by the end of 2023A council has been fined £1,000 after a young girl with autism was denied the right support for months.
The latest judgement found a girl, known as Y, was denied support after council officers failed to carry out the proper assessments of her needs, according toThe ombudsman also found the council took 37 weeks to produce the final version of Y's Education, Health and Care Plan , far in excess of the target of 20 weeks set by the government, and that it still "fell short" of meeting her needs even after this time.
Following a formal complaint by Mrs X in March 2021, the council stated that it would respond to any advice provided by the county's NHS therapeutic services, but added that it was up to Y's GP or other health professionals to determine what specialist assessments she needed. The ombudsman ruled Somerset Council was not under any formal obligation to seek specialist advice when assessing the needs of vulnerable children, but that it had not been "reasonable" in handling Mrs X's requests.
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