Here's a few for starters... I might remember some more later.
1 Refusing to let our OT visit the named school
2 Taking over 2 weeks to get back to our OT regarding an appointment time to visit son at his current school
3 Requesting all sorts of ID and certification from the OT at 4pm the day before the visit, even though they could have done that a couple of weeks earlier and she's never been asked for all that before
4 Refusing our OT access to assess our son at his current school, once she had already travelled about 2 hrs from a different county to see him (they must have been REALLY worried about OT)
5 Named school not replying to our legal rep's list of questions for about two months and giving it to her the morning of the hearing. Panel aware as we immediately got it admitted as late evidence.
6 It then transpiring that grades on said list were out of date, meaning they had filled it in ages ago and withheld it. Panel aware.
7 Our request under data protection being delayed once for lack of birth certificate, then somehow losing another week (after we sent that in) before the validation date they gave to start the 40 days from
8 Not adhering to the 40 days and upon being chased for the results, saying they haven't even started working on the "pile" of paperwork, they can label it urgent and hurry it through but it'll only be some of it, depending on how far they can get by our deadline and we'll have to agree to time limit it and redact it, then come and pick it up. Only getting about 200 pages, most of which we'd seen already.
9 Not sending their final evidence bundle by the Thursday deadline, nothing happening Friday or Monday, then it showing up last thing on the Tuesday afternoon, along with an apology and stating it wont disadvantage us because it's only 2 working days since the Friday deadline - clearly wrong. By that stage, of course, they've all had a jolly good read over the weekend... Excuse given emergency casework meeting or somesuch... Whether that was Thursday, Friday or indeed a meeting on the Tuesday about us when everyone was up to speed is yours to guess... We accepted it as there was nothing we hadn't already got from the school's files.
10 Within an hour of said paperwork coming through, an email arriving from a county EP asking to see our son at school. (To be clear this was also AFTER the evidence deadline) . Gave him authorisation to observe at school only, then report back to us, not formal assessment or report acceptable. They've only had 18 months in which they could have done the assessment...
11 Rumour of county approaching our desired residential school to beg for a day place but no formal offer because seemingly their barrister was not empowered to offer it. Getting an offer two days before hearing (which may or may not have been authorised), then a retraction only a couple of hours later.
12 Working document not coming until a few hours before the hearing.
That was before we got into the hearing and had the county team trying to refute that autism was our son's primary educational need/core disorder, and producing filibusters that politicians would be proud of, even when fairly simple questions.
mousy
