A mother has brought legal proceedings against her seven-year-old son's primary school after she claimed staff made him wear a fluorescent bib because he was autistic.
Joanne Logan has taken Cherry Lane Primary School to a disability tribunal after her son, Charlie, told her about the bib in February last year, reports the Daily Mirror.
She cannot seek damages in the case, but hopes that it will help other parents raising kids with special needs.
He was a Year 1 pupil at the school in West Drayton, London, which has almost 700 children.
Joanne Logan is taking her autistic son's primary school to a disabilities tribunal after claiming Charlie was forced to wear a fluorescent bib at school
Ms Logan, a mother of five, told the Daily Mirror she hopes to win the case to help other parents in a similar position.
'I just want to make sure that no other autistic child needs to be put through what we did,' she said.
'It needs to be challenged - and if this case, if it’s won, it could change that.'
'I have had a lot of people say they’ve had similar. It can affect a child as they get older - they realise they’re different.'
Ms Logan previously said she was 'fuming' and described the school's actions as 'disgusting' and 'discrimination' when she found out about the bib in February last year.
She said: 'It's just not right - it's massive discrimination. Looking back on it I think the classroom teacher mentioned a bib during the week - but I didn't really think about it, it didn't click until Charlie said something.
'When he came home on Thursday (February 22) he said about wearing a bib at break times - and I was like, 'Oh? - what kind of bib?' and he told me it's silver and yellow, and he said: "My teachers have said I have to wear a bib so that they know where I am at break times".'
She added: 'I knew during lunch break he's not always allowed out because he has been accused of hurting the other children, I know there's an issue there which the school have to work with me on.
Mrs Logan said she didn't know her son was wearing a bib and called it 'discrimination'
'But they seem to think the best way to deal with it is to make him wear a bib so that teachers know that he's autistic.
'I wasn't informed about this by any means! - They decided to do this and it's disgusting -
