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KATIE Price has revealed plans for son Harvey to earn money as he loses his residential care home place.
Katie said she’ll help Harvey set up a Cameo account and book nightclub meet-and-greets after he lost his place at his residential care home.
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Captive MindsThe former glamour model, 46, said she is determined to help Harvey, 22, earn “pocket money” and charging fans for videos through Cameo and to meet her son is a good place to start.
Katie said: “Harvey is going to earn some pocket money.
“I got asked the other day about Harvey doing club PAs and I asked Harvey, ‘Do you want to do some clubs and get some pocket money?’ and he said, ‘Yes, mum!’
“So as soon as Harvey is back living near me, I’m going to get him on Cameo and doing club PAs.”
Harvey, who has Prader-Willi Syndrome, autism, and partial blindness, had been preparing to move to a new residentical care placement in just four-and-a-half weeks when Katie was suddenly told the facility could no longer cater for him.
“They’ve changed management and said they won’t be able to cater for Harv because he’s too difficult,” she explained on her podcast.
“So now I’ve got to find another placement for him… so yeah, more drama to deal with.”
Katie, who has been fighting to secure the right care for Harvey since he reached adulthood, admitted the situation had left her frustrated.
“Well, it’s stressful because you want the right thing for your child,” she said.
“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.”
Twice-bankrupt Katie, who lived three hours away in Horsham, West Sussex, appealed a decision to eject him from residential care last year.
Speaking on an episode of her podcast last spring, she said: “They’ve given me three months – he has to find somewhere else by July.
“With someone like Harvey, you need a transitional move, you need to do it slowly.”
She added: “I’m trying to find somewhere nearer for Harvey, but three months isn’t a long time.”
This year he was finally set for new lodgings and it remains to be seen where he will now wend up.
PAWhat is Prader-Willi syndrome?
PWS is a genetic condition that can impact muscle tone, sexual development and the function of the nervous system.
As well as this, those with Prader-Willi syndrome are more likely to have learning difficulties.
Often, it also sparks a constant desire to eat food and a permanent feeling of hunger which leads to child obesity.
However, the syndrome is very rare, with the NHS estimating that it affects “no more than one in every 15,000 children born in England”.
What causes Prader-Willi syndrome?
Those with PWS have a genetic defect on chromosome number 15.
In around 70 per cent of cases, some of the DNA information that’s inherited from the father is missing, which is referred to as “paternal deletion”.
Other cases occur when a child has two copies from their mother and none from their father.
The condition is obtained purely by chance, but those who have one child with PWS have a less than 1 per cent chance of the next one being affected.
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