Petition change the EHC plan to cover disabled students in higher education to 24 years

My son is autistic. We was told that he would have support in education up to the age of 24. He did extremely well at collage and got an overall exam result of merit merit, he got a place in his local Uni only to find that the support he had had in college would cease, just like the EHC plan.

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My son although very intelligent in his field, struggles enormously in social situations and becomes anxious and upset with new experiences, people, environments. With the 1:1 support that he had, he managed to cope with college life and did very well there, but he aspired to go to uni to follow his dream. His EHC plan stopped because it didn't cover higher education. My son is the same person he was before. We are trying to get support for him now from the council but keep hitting barriers

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Date closed 14 April 2017
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