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“Social care just don’t listen to the parents”

“I think, well, definitely with social care, I’d just tell the people that they don’t listen to the parents. They have their own agenda. They stick to that agenda. And if you don’t fit into their boxes or their agendas, then you’re the bad person. And they just don’t listen to the expert on the child which is the parent (or two experts if it is two experts). And that, you know, with Autism – and I’m not obviously the only one saying it – they just need to listen to what you’re saying.”