Overview

• Harvey is set to leave his £350,000-a-year residential college this month after the local authority withdrew its funding.
• He will begin temporary independent living in Southampton in September, sharing a home with five other adults.
• A permanent placement near Littlehampton is scheduled for October to bring him closer to his mother.
• West Sussex County Council cut his college funding after a report said he had no healthcare issues and college staff removed him in February for being “too difficult.”
• His Prader-Willi Syndrome, autism, ADHD and septo-optic dysplasia require consistent, specialised support that has been costly and contested.