Autistic boy's routine halted over Raac at Birmingham school

A woman who has been unable to send her autistic son to school since September, after unsafe concrete was found, said his routine "had been ripped away".

Khiaan, 12, has been home-schooled after reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was found at Birmingham's Baskerville School.

He had made a friendship base at school and the partial closure had affected his mental health, mum Donna said.

The council stated it was working to bring back more children to the site.

Donna said Khiaan had been through years of disruption before getting into the specialist school.

"The consistency in the routine that he's so used to has been ripped away from him basically," she said.

"For the first time in his school life he'd actually made a friendship base and enjoyed going to school. I mean this is a child that couldn't sit in a classroom for more than 20 minutes over three-and-a-half years ago."

Birmingham City Council said the majority of pupils were being taught at the school's site, with some receiving face-to-face education at Hamilton School and Prince Albert High School.

Officers were working together with the school and the Department for Education to bring more pupils to the Baskerville site, it added.

A "small number of Birmingham schools" had been affected by Raac, the council said.

It stated officers had been working closely with impacted schools to ensure they were supported promptly.

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