Three teachers have been suspended after a boy with special needs was left outside in freezing conditions.
Levi Blackshaw, 11, was found naked and curled up in a ball outside Stanley School in Pensby, Merseyside on October 30, last year.
Speaking this week Levi’s mum Suzanne Cole said she did not know about what had happened to her son until the day after when a witness spoke to her.
She said: ‘When I found out I was just crying. I went into the school and I nearly smashed the classroom up. ‘My partner had to get the social workers and I had to be removed from the building.
‘I demanded to see the CCTV footage from the head teacher and it took two weeks. When we saw it I was crying and even he was crying. ‘It was awful.
What’s really hard is how can you prove how Levi was affected? He is non-verbal, he is not like us.
‘He came home from school that evening and we didn’t even know. You send them to school to be protected.’ Eleven months on, head teacher Anthony Roberts, his deputy Cecilia Maxwell and his assistant Helen Clements have all been suspended as an investigation continues.
Her partner Alex Kearney said: ‘The CCTV footage says it all. As witnesses said he was curled up in a ball crying like a baby.’
Levi, who has behavioural issues related to his Down’s syndrome, had been ‘acting up’ on the day of the incident so was left in a classroom on his own.
He started playing with water and took his clothes off when he got wet by splashing himself. Dirty tricks used by Boris Johnson’s top adviser ‘to avoid scrutiny’ It is then alleged that he was taken to a different classroom where Ms Maxwell asked colleagues to take him outside with just a towel on his shoulders.
After eight minutes he was given a pair of shorts but then CCTV footage shows him being left for another 22 minutes.
The school is investigating the allegations and parents have been informed that the head, deputy head and assistant head are ‘not in school at the moment’.
David Spencer, chair of governors at Stanley School, said: ‘Governors have appointed a new temporary leadership team to take over the management of the school while a full investigation is carried out into concerns that have been raised.
‘We would like to reassure pupils and parents that it will be business as usual at Stanley and staff and governors are working together to ensure that the children continue to work in a happy and supportive atmosphere.
‘The pupils’ welfare and best interests are paramount and we will keep parents informed.’
