Katie Price has been locked in a battle with her local authority to receive funding for son Harvey and has been told he has “no healthcare issues” but “behavioural issues” instead
Katie Price was left raging after she became locked in a battle with her local authority over her son Harvey’s health.
The former glamour model says an assessor deemed 22-year-old Harvey has “no health problems”, meaning they will only support him with social care.
It comes after the TV star previously revealed she was trying to get the funding for another year in college for her son.
However, the 46-year-old has now revealed on The Katie Price Show that Harvey is set to leave college after Christmas, and faces moving closer to his mum. She says he is likely to be moved into social care.
The mum-of-five said: “The socials came back yesterday, the people who do the funding, and they believe by seeing Harvey that Harvey has no healthcare issues.
“That he only needs social care issues. They think he has no health problems so they’re not funding, and want him to live in a social care place.
“So now obviously the doctors and all that are good with me. He has a passport for the hospital, he’s on medicine to keep him alive, he’s cortisol deficient so can go into adrenaline crisis at any time, if he’s ill he ends up in hospital, what are they on about, anyone out there if you’re in a situation like me, like everyone knows Harvey has healthcare issues, it’s been documented and I’ve done documentaries on it, but they just think it’s behaviour.
“I’m like are you kidding me, and I’m now having to appeal, even his social worker is like ‘you’ve got to appeal it’ and it’s all because of money. I will not be letting Harvey suffer but it looks like he will be coming home. Not home, I mean a place nearer me, up the road. He won’t be able to stay at college after Christmas.”
Harvey was diagnosed with septo-optic dysplasia when he was just a baby. He also has autism and has Prader-Willi syndrome, which is a genetic disorder that cause physical and mental issues.
Katie’s battle for healthcare funding comes as doctors look to change son Harvey’s medication. The star revealed she was surprised by a recent DNA test doctors performed on her son.
“They’re changing his meds, but how fascinating is this. They’ve done a DNA on his mouth, they’re sending it to America to test it, to know that the medication, if he can have different ones they do now for his behaviour and his health, how fascinating, I didn’t know you could do that.”
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Source: New York Post
