X Factor's Sam Bailey 明らかにする／漏らすs struggles to get her autistic son into a special school after he became suicidal 予定 to 欠如（する） of support in mainstream education

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X Factor 勝利者 Sam Bailey has spoken of the struggles she had in getting support for her autistic child.

Speaking on GBNews, singer Sam, 46, said doctors told her they were unable to help her son Tommy.

Things became so bad that Tommy, now 老年の 15, even became suicidal because he wasn't getting the help he needed.

Sam - who won The X Factor 支援する in 2013 - told GB News: 'I knew the 移行 from 最初の／主要な school to 第２位 school was going to be difficult for him.?

'And I think as parents we were 肉親，親類d of in 否定 that there was anything untoward that was different or anything and we were told that he would really struggle and to get a diagnosis.

X Factor 勝利者 Sam Bailey has spoken of the struggles she had in getting support for her autistic child?

Speaking on GBNews, singer Sam, 46, said doctors told her they were unable to help her son Tommy?

'I 現実に went 私的な to get his diagnosis and by doing that it was a quicker 過程, but after that diagnosis was the hard part because you have to 肉親，親類d of 証明する that he can't be in a mainstream school.?

'He would bang his 長，率いる against the 塀で囲む. He really, really struggled at school.

'He didn't go for a year and a half. He really really struggled and didn't have an education. He just festered at home and put on 負わせる. He was 脅すing to take his life. So it was a really, really 堅い time and I went to the doctors on my own and said to the doctor s, I'm really 関心d about my son.?

'I said I'm really 関心d about my son, because of how he's been. I was like, you know, he's 説 some stuff and they said that we can't を取り引きする this.

'There needs to be autism outreach and they turned me away. I've got a letter to say that the GP turned my son away because he was feeling low and told us to go to the 国家の Autistic Society. I was 絶対 baffled by it.'

Sam was speaking to GBNews in her 役割 as an 外交官／大使 for Children's Activities Week.?

During CAW, What's On 4 Kids will team up with 国家の charity, Caudwell Children, to bring an exciting seven days of fun and fundraising to the children's activities 部門.

支援する in October 2022 Sam?明らかにする／漏らすd that Tommy 自白するd to having suicidal feelings at the age of 12.

Things became so bad that Tommy, now 老年の 15, even became suicidal because he wasn't getting the help he needed?

Sam - who won The X Factor 支援する in 2013 - told GB News: 'I knew the 移行 from 最初の／主要な school to 第２位 school was going to be difficult for him'?

In a heartbreaking interview, the singer delved into her two-year 戦う／戦い to get her son the 権利 support, after he joined 第２位 school at the end of 2020.

Sam told The Sun?how the 第２位 school bus was a '大規模な sensory overload' for Tommy, which she branded: 'his worst nightmare.'

She 解任するd:?'He'd be banging his 長，率いる against the 塀で囲む before he left the house. He told us he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to throw himself in 前線 of the bus.

'We'd often get a call 説 we needed to 選ぶ him up because he wasn't behaving, or he'd run out of his lesson and gone 行方不明の.'??

Sam - who is also mum to daughters Brooke, 19, and Miley, 10, -?explained how the school's special 教育の needs co-ordinator tried to support Tommy, however there wasn't enough 動員可能数 to 会合，会う his needs.

決定するd to 安全な・保証する better 援助 for her son, the doting mother-of-three 適用するd for an education, health and care 計画（する） (EHCP), to get the 基金ing needed, but sadly it was at first 拒絶するd.

At this point, Sam made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to pull Tommy out of that school, telling the 出版（物）: '審理，公聴会 the words, ''I don't want to be alive any more'' from a 12-year-old was heartbreaking. I knew I couldn't have him going 支援する.'

After その上の 使用／適用s, Tommy was 結局 given an EHCP, and with it he was 認めるd 20 hours of 基金ing and a place?at a special school he '絶対 hated' and which?Sam and her husband Craig 除去するd him from in July 2021.

It had only been that past autumn school 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 that Tommy had finally been given a place at a social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) school which 申し込む／申し出s the 静める 環境, which he needs ーするために 栄える.

Thankfully, によれば Sam, Tommy is now 'so much happier,' and explained how if he has a 炉心溶融, staff take him for a walk or to spend time with the therapy dog.??

The singer 主張するd she doesn't want people to 'pity' her, 主張するing: 'I wouldn't change Tommy for the world. I just want him to have a life where he can grow and 会合，会う people and maybe one day 落ちる in love and have children of his own.'

Sam 持続するd that those things would be 利用できる to her son if the 政府 makes the system that's 現在／一般に in place easier to navigate.?

She 明言する／公表するd: 'Autism doesn't go away. He's not going to get better, but he can learn to 対処する with things better.'

どこかよそで in the interview, Sam also 勧めるd people to give space to children wearing a hidden disabilities lanyard or ear defenders, to not use raised 発言する／表明するs and to not assume the child is 'just 存在 naughty'.?

She explained of his experience: 'He would bang his 長，率いる against the 塀で囲む. He really, really struggled at school'

Sam is pictured with her husband Craig who she married in 2003

It comes after?Sam took to Instagram at the time to 株 an informative 地位，任命する about her son struggling to を取り引きする the （人が）群がるs in London, to raise 認識／意識性 of autism and hidden disabilities.?

The boy could be seen sitting on the 床に打ち倒す at a London McDonald's as he was 安心させるd by his father Craig Pearson after becoming tired and 圧倒するd while laying flowers for the Queen.?

The singer 明らかにする／漏らすd to the 出版（物） that people 答える／応じるd by telling her not to take him into big cities, but she argued that she doesn't want her son to be 'stuck at home.'?

If you're worried a child is feeling suicidal, trained counsellors at NSPCC can 供給する help or advice over the phone on 0808 800 5000

Children and young people under 19 can also get support from Childline ,online or over the phone 24 hours a day?on 0800 1111

For more （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） visit: https://childrensactivitiesweek.co.uk/activity-search/.