Hamza needs classroom support which faces being reduced to save the council £650,000.
- Credit: Husna Begum
Little Hamza Islam is just a normal youngster doing his schoolwork on a laptop at home in Poplar during lockdown except that he needs specialist support when he s in the classroom because of his profound deafness.
Hamza s mum Husna Begum is one of the parents facing an agonising wait over the future of specialist education services for more than 500 deaf children and thousands more with special needs in the East End which could soon be slashed.
Hamza Islam at play, like any other child