Mother Natasha

I am also very well informed though disagree with many views it is not always the majority that are right becaus ethey are the majority

It is in my case and many cases as mine so answer me this why do you and other mothers fight so hard for a statemnt then if they are so useless????I have years of experience and if there was a law which made them compulsory noone would have to fight for tem would they x

So your saying that nothing gets done and the government are allowed to carry on dictating and making people suffer because people cannot agree that statements should be compulsory when everyone fights for one , It seems to me that people with statemnets worry with this proposed law that their children will have less help than they are receiving at the moement by sharing all the funding out allowing children who cannot have any help to have it, with the propsed law we would have more funding given and in many cases if short though we should not be can raise some moeny our selves to insure that EVERYONE has the help they so need. And the NAS has the LEA on their side so they do not want to approve of statemneting and such things to upset the balance when as an established company they cann change so many things, noone has to rely on the LEA FOR money they are established enough and their our fund raising schemes abailable. All the othe petitions and proposals work perfectly along side this one. There is know flaw as most children do need a statemnet and the few who are getting the help they need without it can benefit with having it in future and it is an insurance if anything those go wrong theywill have this statemnet and I do not understand the big deal as the statemnet would be free of charge so why should people complain about something which is not hindering them and can help them if need be in future but benefit many other children who arenot so fortunate

No you cannot if there is an awful headmistress standing in the way with the council and Lea and school governors on her side going against pyscologists and medical advice unfortunately this is not the case in our area and when they place an assistant with my child when they have a person check up on the school when usually my child is at the back of the classroom on her own..,..The LEA sie with her as they want more money and she does not wish to have to spend any fnds from her SEN budget on SEN cases. I have experienced this so you cannot say it cannot happen, headteachers have too much authority for some reason in this country which is why there should be a ppunishment for them if they do not follow rules and regulations which will make them have to comply with giving our children the extra help they need.

Tell us then how would you solve this problem we have all had then fighting for statements........??? How is there anything wrong with more teacher training and teaching others of autism e.t.c, making statements arrive faster.....I am not saying as I have said plenty of times that statements alone will solve the entire problem though it can for people such as myself but it is a step to getting there with teacher training and punishment for not complying with the rules, funding directed more at serious problems as this and not prisoners, war e.t.c and other things

why are people continuously twisitng what I am saying and stressing on the nipping in the budd(early intervetion) saying when I have explained a million times that it is nipping difficulties not a part of themselves thats what most parents want for there child early intervention thats why we work and fight to get our kids the extra help they need and it makes children learn easier by tackling their difficulties early on hence nipping their difficulties as in making it easier for them to learn from an early age

hhhm yes that is the problem as parents it iis difficult to sometimes decide what is best i think if it were myself i would have wished my mother to do so but that is the problem she is not be though a part of me and continual suppression might make the child so sick of being suppressed that it would be counter productive and she would rebel more which is what am worried about as now we are dealing with something different and not how she learns but how she reacts with her emotions..and social aspects

so what would your suggestion be in clearing the whole matter up???? If teacher and heateachers... have punishment i.e they get the boot if they not comply I think that is a very good idea x

That is true but what if my daughter would have wished for me to do this for her herself later on ??

I completely agree and I will be attending the march, thankyou for letting us know about it and I wish you the best of luck with what you are doing and I am here to help!!!! Best wishes xx

I thought about that myself but I am worried that when she is older she will carry on doing it which would make maintaining a relationship difficult possibly and agree that more has to be done for children and individuals themselves to know about things like this to prevent bullying e.t.c... how can the government make an inclusion law without any child or young adult being taught about these things.....But in order for my child to stop waving her arms when on entering adulthood...I am thinking it is better for her to do so now??

taht depends on the school though does'nt it our school does not do anything fro my daughter unless she has a statement , compulsory statements are there to prevent us having to fight so hard for it u see, i have never heard of the suggested idea existing in other authorities but it still has not been made a law+sattements do not have to be as expensive as they are and medics could hand them out instead which would make more sense i feel x

I have ADD myself diagnosed later on in life and I could have done with extra understanding from schools and help to understand what I have and deal with it better otherwise you are sometimes left wondering why do I act in a certain way which many do not or i wish i could stop and focus in my case on something the way i would like to....nipping in the bud is a saying meaning early intervention with early intervention children with autism can have extra help to learn the way they are able to understand and learn things from an earlier age so they are able to understand what children learn at that age but in a way they can understand withoutthis they would not be able to learn many things and sometimes say in the case of my child she waves her arms when she gets excited which is what I am working with her to learn not to do and it is working , children learn things quicker when younger and more easily so if people want to stay the way they are or for their kids to why do they get extra help for the child that does not make sense of course I am happy with who I am but knowing how to deal with what I have has changed the way I am as in the way I deal with things, I am more able to focus on things for longer now as my problem is concentrating. Since I have been diagnosed it has been helpful for me with work and anything I want to do, I have learnt to stick to things I wish to stick at a bit more early intervention would have helped me through life i am sure but have had a happy life nonetheless filled with ups and downs of course but I appreciate who I am but am happy that I can now do things I could not do before. I still have concentration problems but this has helped me and nipping my add at an earlier age would have made it easier for me to sit still and focus more and learn more at school with an assistant specialised in add..... I am not saying they will stop being autistic in itself but children can stop having difficulties altogether in some cases or some difficulties remain by early intervention. xxx

Of course I understand that your son still has his difficulties but i meant with him having his statement it is helping him a lot more why fight for a statement if it will not help at all which is why i thought the compulsory statement idea a good one as so many parents as ourselves suffer trying to get one and am very happy for you and your child that with your strength you have managed to achieve this for him. And you are right I am angry I am sick and tired and drained from these blanket policies and ridiculous laws which is why i think with everyone's imput I belive that we can modify them not over night of course but with my optimism I was hoping for next year. After all these years I am still optimistic and feel that now is the time to act on this and am finding more and more groups on this sort of thing and families who have suffered the same as we. Everyone is fed up with it all. I feel this petition can really change things alongside the petition for more training resources and sen schools I saw are also up on the Prime MInister's website. So many people have been failed by the inclusion law and I believe that with this new implemented law it would prevent bullying or continuous bulling and help in the development of the child with less agravation and no more fighting for a statement as it would be there when we need it. All SEN children would have the help they need with this law and no child would have less help than what they had already if they had any but more if need be. We will force the government this way to provide more funding and the simple manoever of compulsory statemneting will change a lot of things alone. I think this is a possitive way forward and feel the way a lot of people are feeling right now we would not allow any inteference such as blanket policies to occur and feel with this new law it would be difficult for them to occur. A man in the paper died, a father of an sen child fighting for a statement for i think it was 14 years , he committed suicide because he could not cope. I do not wan't to see that happen to anyone else. Think possitive i think I really hope you can consider signing the petition xox

The medic would be specialised in the subject area though and see whats best for the child's statement as he would have assessed the child already to have been able to diagnose him and a statement can provide children with the care they need if for example a school is willing to do so so then the difficulty can be nipped in the budd or just addressed sooner than later at n earlier stage of her development which is more beneficial. In my case a statement would be a magic wand and allow my child to be happy in a school that meets her needs and thus allow her to progress and flourish as she should be able to do.

Thankyou do you then agree that statemnets should be compulsory as we all fight so hard for them xx

Thankyou

I did not mean to offend anyone my intentions are only to help these children and obviosly we need btter trained teachers, better funded schools and a punishemnt for teachers... who do not use their SEN budget for SEN matters as my daughter's school so that they will. It is not hurting anyone in making statements compulsory but helping the various children who would benefit from it and every child would benefit from better teaching...which is something else we need and more specialist schools as the inclusion system is really not working.

I cannot move to another school without a statement because of the headmistress who is against it all she is really a nasty piece of work and a statemnet will not change the bullies attitude but enable my child to move to another school where their are better provisions for my child and where teachers have a better understanding of pupils.... A statement would make a huge difference to myself, my daughter, usband and all other mothers who have been in the same situation or going through it. And that is why a compulsory statemnt must come with a compulsory punishment for those who do not comply i.e teachers, headteachers, lea.....

You know what was meant by fine as you already have a statement for your child and I did not say that you managed to get your statemnet by luck but that the parents who have them are very lucky there is a difference I am fully aware of how hard it is and still have faith that I will get one for my daughter as they are hard to come by, like it is a god send that you have one after your struggle to attain it but i am unfortunate and unlucky as I still have not managed to get one due to the headmistress of my daughter's school making it impossible to move her to another school at the tribunal the headteacher's word went against the medics that my daughter needs a statement thus I cannot move her from the school she is being bullied at becuas eshe does not have a statement. With a statement this would not be happening and my daughter would have had a very different few years if she had one as she would not be in her existing school.

I do not understand what you are saying so you'd get extra help for your child and want him to get better at an older age when it is more difficult and most of the damage is done??? and rather he continued to struggle rather than the best option which is to try and make him get better at a younger age so that he would not continue to struggle or struggle as much. It does not make any sense. If one can nip a difficulty in the budd thats best for the child. If the child's disorder cannot be nipped in the bud I am not saying that there is anything wrong with that or the child and like you said a child's past molds its future so if you want your child to get better sooner than later you attack the problem sooner then later if you can . The child's make up would not be nipped in the budd but his difficulties such as learning difficulties which is what every parent strives for by putting his/her child in a specialist school for example and getting a statement so that mainstream schools deliver the extra help the child needs. How can you deny the help a child needs from an early age if it is within your means and due to the law which will hopefully be implemented:Compulsory Statementing after diagnosis.

Well the doctor will have to assess the child first before the diagnosis naturally but by producing a compulsory statement after diagnosis will not affect the diagnosis and its quality and thus giving the child access straight away to his/her requirements I think its genius!!!! And nip a child's learning and social difficulties it in the budd x

A statement is for all children with mild and extreme disorders and each child will have their own individual statement and diagnosis and the LEA would not provide statements but our medics preventing blanket policing with the punishment for schools, the LEA and teachers who do not comply and with a statement one has more amunition to combat schools in this moment in time.... it makes life very hard to even get close to the education your child deserves without one. And you cannot argue that this policy is not better than the exsisting one where most children have to fight for years to get what they need and by that time it is to late and they are 16. Speeding up statements, making them compulsory will speed up everything with less argovation allowing children to develop as they should from a young age. And there would be plenty of doctors all over the country willing to produce a promt diagnosis. Can you not see the benefits?????

I have just read the negative comments above and cannot believe I am hearing this there are so many kids that need statements and with punishment laws for teachers... to loose heir jobs if they do not comply i cannot see what could really go wrong. It is worth a shot anything to benefit these kids and individuals!!!And it is not hard to get a diagnosis the problem is statements and its a very good idea if one could just litterally as soon as our children have been diagnosed have the medic give us a statement straight away theres no harm in it and the kids who have them already have them already I do not see the problem an those who do not which to have it as they are fine might benefit from it or wish to have it later in secondary school or university they might be fine now but in their next school who knows you know its there if they wish to use it or not why are you going agaist helping millions of kids who really need it just because your kid is fine when the doctor could just send you it by post and you would not even have to do a thing I am concerned with other children and parents who need help as well as my child and would never prevent others from having the life they deserve even if I am fine and can help it doesn't take long to sign a petition and every little helps.Compulsory statementing after diagnosis would not be harming you so why go against it I really do not understand!!!

I completely agree!!!! my daughter, Lilly has nine years of age, autistic and after 3 years we are still fighting for a statement it is insane and do not know what else I can do!!!!I will sign your petition without a doubt and think you've really started something here, I have faith in it this will be the way forward for many where the inclusion system is failing them and I am hearing of more and more cases like ours by the day. Also I noticed that you have some MP's signatures on the petition which is great, what I think we could do also is march to downing street or something. My daughter is being denied access to a statement because of the LEA, council and her very own school becuase the headteacher who for some reason has such authority over the council and LEA will not comlpy as she does not wish to use her SEN buget on such matters as SEN and is forcing Lilly to stay in her mainstream school where she is being bullied. I take her out for lunch to protect her but this is having a great affect on her as she is speaking less than before. Mainstream can work if liek you say there is compulosry statementing after diagnosis and if teachers had the right training but were punished they do not take the training as they already overlook the code of practice law so what is to stop them from ignoring a teacher training law.... There needs to be a punishment implemented for teacher and headteachers alike. Who do they think they are and people actually look up them. Was it not an authoritarian and top barrister who decided to shoot his neighbours one day one cannot trust anyone not even a headteacher or teacher for that matter. Why is it the headteachers word.. against a medics wins????? And the Autistic society were no help as they want to keep the LEA sweet and parents who are lucky enough to have what they need i.e statements sweet also. If we can get the society to back us we could really change things as they are already well known it would be a big thing for the LEA to turn their back's on the society and something unlikely thus why would the society not help??? If the LEA did not fund the society anymore which I am sure would not happen but persay if it did we would have parents... to help with funding and other means. Something has to change I spoke to another mother the other day and she said that her daughter hit a teacher who was shouting... at her and they said she was naughty when she had been diagnosed with the condition and then placed in a cell at the age of 11 and only then the school.... said hhhm maybe she does need statementing. It seems that somebody has to die or something or other before something is done which is ridiculous like taht father in the newspaper who commited suicide for not being able to cope. I hope that this works and I am 100% behind you!!!!Good look with your statement!!! x