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A mum who was promised her child would get a place in a special needs school has been told there are not enough staff and he’ll have to wait until September. It means five-year-old Louie, who has multiple profound learning difficulties including autism, will have been without a place in formal education for a year. Mum Kelly Smith said the delay has impacted her youngest son “terribly” and she feels he has been “going backwards rather than forwards”. The 39-year old said: “It’s breaking my heart. We are being kept in the dark. “We have not been given any firm answers. “I am so upset and angry….

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