Katie Price has revealed her son Harvey has been ‘kicked out’ of his place at a residential care home for being ‘too difficult’.
The former glamour model, 46, explained the 22-year-old was set to go to a new care home in a month’s time, after losing his place at a specialist college last year.
Harvey is blind, autistic, has septo-optic dysplasia, a learning disability, and is one of the 2,000 people in the UK with Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder.
But Katie explained that she now has to find somewhere else for him to live after new management took over the care home and determined that they couldn’t cater for Harvey’s needs.
Speaking on her podcast The Katie Price Show, she said: ‘Harvey is supposed to be moving in four-and-a-half weeks, they’ve changed management and said they won’t be able to cater for Harv, because he’s too difficult.
‘So now I’ve got to find another placement for him… so yeah, more drama to deal with.
Katie later opened up on the stress the sudden decision had caused, with her having only four weeks to find a new home for Harvey and still wanting the ‘best’ for her son.
She explained: ‘We worked months and months for that and he was told four-and-a-half weeks before that he couldn’t go there, and Harvey has been doing the countdown.
‘Well it’s stressful because you want the right thing for your child and it is a lot of time and effort to go back and do more meetings, more forms, it is very time-consuming because you want the best for your child.’
Katie Price has revealed her son Harvey has been ‘kicked out’ of his residential care home for being ‘too difficult’
It comes after Katie was forced to withdraw Harvey from his £350,000-a-year college last year amid her bankruptcy woes.
The mother-of-five was left devastated after her local authority refused to fund her son’s care because he has ‘no healthcare issues’, with an assessor concluding that Harvey ‘only needs social care’.
He is being supported at the residential National Star College in Gloucester, but Katie revealed in March that she was being forced to pull him out because ‘West Sussex Council wouldn’t fund him’ at a college too far from where she lives.
The TV star has spoken publicly about trying to secure Harvey funding for the college as she battles with hundreds of thousands of pounds in outstanding tax bills.
