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Good luck, an advice I can give is..LA are the opposition ..always remember this

Still no final statement..getting worried now as due to start school next week..

congratulations great news..hope you feel better now though x

Hi I took lady from ipsea with me but she only had the weekend to read through the file..so was lucky witrh result. On another note am becoming increasingly worried now as we still have not had the final working document from the tribunal my solicitor has given then 5 working days now to return it..as lea cannot issue the final statement without it. The lea has issued pass for travel for my son and the school have given us a start date but still awaiting the final statement. I think they are now breaking the law, im so fed up now and think i have alot of issues around my sons statement already. Am awaiting reply from my solicitor today as to next step..anyone else had this?

Just like to let you know..we won, they have agreed to him going back to his old school

Hi in his last annual reveiw it said no ammenfments an his prev placement was named nov 2011.. then in late may..june his new school was mentioned.ie they had a place..i called local lea but normal contact was not there.. then last letter i got was saying a place from sept 2012..his placement is independant whereas his nrew one is lea maintained. It is bssically alot more money to send him to the private one.

Sorry have moved house so not much chance to get online..it seems the placement was temporary an was not an actual school so they got around it that way.the placemrnt is now registered as a school. My solicitor said it is not illegal but not the normal way to go about it as no meting was called.we have discovered that another pupil didnt even go to tribunal an lea have returned him to his private placement in light of lea realising mistakes they made with moving a num of pupils.ie my son an our case..my son attendance is 33% an no signs of improving. He finds school struture an routine tiring..an school dont seem to be able to help.he dont want part time either..tribunal is on 30th april..im tryinh get kids as ipsea may not take case.as apparantly it holds low chance of success due To Cost Difference.so Going Speak To Kids Tomorrow.

Well had tribunal on 25th Feb and Lea apparently have broke the code of practice the panel was very direct..asking when we was told of the placement.. why it was not on annual reveiw nov 2011 an we only found out in April 2012.. why there had not been transition period.. told LEA to get there house in order correct the termology and do a better job of the statement. I was in complete shock as one of panel members said in all her yrs she had never come across such a mess they was considering cancelling the appeal an reverting to current prev statement where his last placement was listed in part 4.. but LEA argued that.. they considered a Stay? and finally we agreed on an adjornment so my son an the prev placement could attend and give more answers..ie post 16 prov an also LEA to have the answers in why the statement appears incorrect an steps was not followed.. Its to be held in April .. I thought we had slim chance of changing prt4 an we was changing prt 2/3 so was not prepared for this.. so next time im going be taking someone from kids.. anyone else ever had this? Also LEA refused to let him stay in his prev placement whilst appeal was going through which the panel found shocking.. is he in his new school illegally?

This happened with my son..the school was telling me verbally that they could not meet his needs but it has to be written and then the LEA will try and challenge that, but our school at the time had plenty of exclusion reports etc and clearly they could not meet his needs..it just has to be proven and somewhere in the report its better if its worded "in a mainstream setting" good luck x

Thanks Sally we are going for the appeal solicitor is going to get a independent education psychologist to assess my son LEA have 7 days to respond as we have requested that my son stays at his placement for now until the tribunal x So worried my son is suffering so much at the moment unsure of what is coming he has been a nightmare sleeping and keeps saying he only has couple days left he dosent want to go in as he dont want to say goodbye :-( as his mum im trying to reassure him but its so hard when i dont know either If he has to go to the other placement he be ok cause according to him his friends are all going but i dont think he will be. He has gone in today but that was a struggle tomorrow they have a school trip then friday is last day then fingers crossed.. I wonder what will happen the unit is not built yet,no visits from the staff there, no visits from the pupils that meant to be going there.. surely this is a bad situation just waiting to happen? Come Sept, there will be about 30 new kids.. all having similar issues why did they rush this? crazy.. Spoke to his school one case has been agreed but there are about 6 others all going for appeal he does have SALT too x

I hope for your sakes it works out ok. Found out today its not even finished yet..they have just finished recruiting staff too..just gets worse Future Developments : As from September 2012 the ..... will include brand new ASD Provision for students in the 3-19+ age range with additional SLD. The provision is due to take in about 25 students initially in KS1-5 from September 2012 and then ultimately expand to 40 students in the age range 3-25 over subsequent years. The teaching resources will include a £1,5m new build and adaptations to current rooms on our Upper & Lower School Campus Staff are currently being recruited with a clear expectation that they have the skills of our current staff team i.e. : the successful candidates will have a clear understanding about effective teaching, raising and sustaining achievement, ASD / SLD provision and care and support of complex young people. The Teachers appointed will start in April 2012. Initially they will be involved in curriculum design in preparation for September 2012 and their teaching delivery. They will also be given further intensive training in complex ASD and the strategies to secure a caring pastoral and therapeutically supportive learning environment. During June and July they will be joined by a team of twelve new Teaching Assistants and begin to visit the students in their current schools to build important relationships and prepare for a successful transition from September. We have every intention of appointing quality individuals willing to work hard in our happy team of staff to further develop .......ASD specialist provision as an outstanding part of our well respected Special School. thoughts? x

Thanks bed, Just heard back from solicitor and they said looks like they can take on the case Im going to give the details to the other parents as they was all given the same letter it seems how can they expect a child to transfer that quick? Before when he was at primary ed they did it over a year this is going to be a few months an less if you account the holidays. School have said they are all in shock they got the letter on the same day. Its cost cutting an to a unit that has no history so we wont even know if they can meet his needs or there success rate etc..my son has gone in himself a bit already hearing the news x

Thanks Sally I have found solicitor SEN online so have emailed them..just waiting on replies now x

Hi I help as its research pm me x

Have just sent copy of letter to lady who dealt with us before from Kids.org do you know how I can find previous thread on here about issues I had? thanks x