30% of parents 'asked to keep autistic child at home'

Three out of every 10 parents with an autistic child in the UK have been asked to keep them at home, a disability charity has found.

Ambitious About Autism found of the 70,785 children who have autism:

• More than half of them were kept out of school by their parents who did not feel their child had the right support at school.
• One fifth (20%) had their child formally excluded from school in the last twelve months.

• Two fifths (40%) of parents had been asked to collect their child at an unscheduled time.
• The report also pointed out teachers were struggling with autistic pupils - 60% of educators felt they did not have enough training to deal with a student who had the disability.

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