Heartbroken parents have started a petition calling on Edinburgh council to reverse cuts
Disabled children in Edinburgh are being left out of after-school clubs following the city's council decision to cut funding with minimal warning. Families have been left devastated by the move that will affect primary school-aged children that live with Additional Support Needs .
They are now calling for the City of Edinburgh Council to reinstate the funding so that no ASN child is left behind. Imogene Keane, 45, from Duddingston, says her son Tommy Keane, 9, has been attending his primary after-school club since P2. "He has been happily attending ever since. But last week we found out that he was to be excluded. It was heartbreaking telling him. We cried a lot in P2 and we cried a lot now. This time the friendships he has formed would be so difficult to lose.
"We began preparing for Thomas to attend our local primary school a couple of months ago and when I spoke to the school they felt he would need one to one support like he received back in Japan," she said. "They said that it should not be a problem as the council often provides support through a Capability Scotland. They too were shocked when we found out that the contract was not renewed.
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