"A Stockport Council spokesman said: "This young person has clearly been let down by the Council and we are sorry for our failings. We will ensure the person is supported in the future.""

Do Council Spokespersons not speak the Queen's English these days? He is a boy dammit!

Many badly brought up children do acquire convenient medical labels to mask their avoidable inadequacies. We have no evidence that this is the case here so I feel it’s rather harsh baldly branding Mrs Miller a bad parent or Master Miller a bad boy.

   Someone who knows doesn't!

Stockport is funded like a number of Councils for schools e.g.Trafford, Solihull, Bury, Bromley, yet their GCSE results have far outstripped Stockport's.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the system that blames everyone else but itself.

   I agree 100% with pip . Behaviour of offspring is down to the the parents .To blame the school/council is just pathetic. My three children can be a handful sometimes ,but i dont say they have BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS . Get real and bring your children up the right way .

   If you read the full report on the LGO website, Pip, it states that the boy also has pervasive development disorder, which basically translates as autism.

ADD, ADHD and autism are very similar conditions which do exist and are not something which the child or parents can help.

Yes, there are some parents who makes excuses for their child's behaviour by claiming that they have one of these, but this boy was diagnosed by a consultant psychiatrist, and they don't diagnose without being sure that the child has a genuine condition. Get educated! Autism is on the rise and you need to lose the ignorance.

   Well done, Denise.

   I am sick and tired of reading lame excuses from parents. Attention deficit? Bring your children up properly, spend time interacting with them and STOP blaming schools, councils and anyone else you can think of for your own failings as a parent.

   The scary thing is that this is just one example of similar cases going on in Stockport every day.

Stockport is very poorly funded, educationally, by the Government. The Council makes this worse by cutting the funding available to children with Special Educational Needs.

If you read the full report on the LGO website, it repeatedly gives examples of why Stockport Council is continually failing many, many children with SEN: reports and evidence ignored, refusals to respond to letters written by parents, staff too busy to read documents properly, beurocrats not bothering to remember that each piece of paper represents a child's life and future.

It may be expensive to pay for children with special needs to receive an appropriate education e.g. by paying for a private special school, but that is no excuse for refusing to do so.

It is also pointless and short-sighted to cut back on spending on a child like Adam with SEN, as, as his mother points out, it will cost society more to meet their needs when they get older, failures of the education system, casualties of beurocracy and possibly criminals or mentally ill.

This is a long-term, widespread problem within Stockport's education system, and something MUST be done about it if we are to have any hope of Stockport's children fulfilling their potential and growing up to be working, happy citizens.