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    Have you checked if the school has places available? There is no point moving unless your child would definitley get a place.

    Is it in the same county? If you move into another county/LA, then they will review the statement and you could end up with a worse one.

    If the school is independent, there is no guarantee that either LA will pay for it.

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    I'm not sure if they could seek a re-assessment even if he had a place at an independent school?? If they did that every year no-one could afford to keep getting private reports to prove the independent school was still needed. Does anyone have an opinion on whether that could actually happen.

     

    I suppose they could, but once you are in an independent school the LA have no authority over them, so the school will tend to say and support what is best for the child. Their reports for the annual review tend to be much more detailed and truthful. Most independent schools employ their own SaLT/OT/psychs, so you would get independent reports for free (or in fact indirectly paid for by the LA - lol!).

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    I am not sure that the Statement just "lapses" when you deregister your child.

     

    see: Maintaining a Statement towards the bottom of http://www.underhill.nildram.co.uk/law.htm

     

    This seems to suggest that it would need to be agreed at a review that the statement is no longer needed. I was under the impression that the LA monitored the home school provision for those children with statements. As he was at a special school, it says that the statement should have been amended to say "now home schooled".

     

    It certainly seems that something has gone wrong in the process. I would listen to what the LA have to say/offer, and then tell them you need time to take further advice. Than call IPSEA or similar.

     

    Re: 16+ provision. I know that locally there are courses designed for children with SEN that include basic literacy and numeracy skills.

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    Try to put the emotion to one side, otherwise it will cloud your judgement.

     

    Are you appealing parts 1 and 2? If so, go through the statement and say what you want added and what you want taken out - each point needs to be backed by evidence from a report. Once these parts are right, use each need/provision to show x school cannot meet it, but y school can.

     

    Remember, the LA only have to fund a school that can meet his needs - if another school can offer more than he needs (as per his Statement), then the LA do not have to fund it.

     

    Results at KS2/3/4 can be used to show that he is too bright for a school (past results available on the internet and maybe on the school web-site vs his current levels). Look at the Ofsted description of the school - it will often say "school for children with x, y z."

     

    Good luck.

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    I cant lock the doo ras back door is locked and kitchen door has to be locked as eldest would turn the oven on and rob food , for fire saftey need one door assesable

    I have nver heard of an earlybird course, i have done webster stratten, parent power plus (ss put me on but wasnt suitable) , adhd foundations course, and some others but to do with eduaction and statments

    where can I find out about the early bird?

    thanks Helen x

     

    Sometimes we have to balance the risks. At the moment it is more likely that he will run away, than that there will be a fire, so lock the door. You may be able to adapt the door (eg: put a catch up at the top of the door, that you can reach but he can't or a chain that will slow him down enough for you to catch him). Put a bell/chimes on/in front of the door, so you know as soon as he is trying to open it. At the same time, make him a hidey hole indoors (with books/music, etc) and teach him to go there to chill out when he is upset. Teach the other children to leave him alone if he is in there. Reward him for using it.

     

    You could also: give him a cheap mobile phone (so he can call you if he runs off), give him a watch (and tell him he has to be back in 10 minutes and reward him if he is), teach him how to choose who to ask for help (eg: policeman, person in a shop, a mother), give him a card with your tel number on it (so someone can call you), enlist the help of friends and neighbours to let you know if they see him wandering, set out a boundary of where he is allowed to go and where he must not go past, teach him how to cross the roads and where are good places to cross. These things need to be practised when he is in a good mood, so they become habits he can still do when he is cross/angry. If he is going to run away, do your best to make sure he can keep himself safe.

     

    My son went through a phase of running away, and it was horrible.

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    Is he on ESA? Whne my son was called to the Pathways to Work intrview, I told them my son would not be able to attend without me and would need to see someone who understood AS, and they postponed the interviews.

     

    There should be a Disability Employment Advisor at the JC, who should understand AS more.

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    I doubt the out-of-county placement will offer him a place if he does not want to stay there. That was made very clear when we were going through this. Is there any way you can "sell" the out-of-county placement to him?

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    There is also 1:3

    Chidlren have a learning difficulty if they:

    a) have a significantly greater difficulty in learnign than the majority of chidlren the saem age

    B) have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of the educational facilities of a kind generally provided for chidlren of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority

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    There are somethings you have to do regardless of how it will effect the children. Anyway, you don't want your son to grow up believing that that is the way that men should treat women. If you are stressed, that will affect your son.

     

    Go to the CAB and get some advice. Then go and see a solicitor (you will then know what you need to tell him and what you need to ask, so will make best use of the time).

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    I agree with Kathryn - you need to know if they just did not give any consideration of his medical/social needs (a procedural error if that is one of the criteria for allocation of places) or whether they considered them and did not think they warranted him being given priority for a place.

     

    When you get the LAs case statement, it should specify what they did. You do need to be very clear why that particular school will meet his needs so much better than any other similar school - it could be that one school has a bell for change of lessons, the environment, availability of a quiet room, availability of certain courses, etc.

     

    Some parents may try to use this criteria to get their child into their preferred school, so you need to make it clear that there are valid reasons in your son's case.

     

    If you google admissions appeals you should get some information. You could also ask the NAS for advice.

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    >>LEA have replied to tribunal saying that ASD and ADHD are not educational needs, and as such they will not name them on the statement. And that because each person with these presents differently, they oppose naming them on the statement.>>

     

    That seems strange - I know lots of children who have one or other named on their statements (in that county). In themselves they are not educational needs, but usually the educational needs arise from the ADHD/ASD. I can't see the Tribunal agreeing with them as long as all the consequent needs are listed too. Ask IPSEA what they think.

     

    I know that most specialist schools will not take a child unless AS/ASD is their primary need, so maybe the LA are trying to stop them offering you a place?

     

    Isn't he at an EBD school? I can't see that EBD is an educational need anymore than ASD or ADHD.

     

    Have the LA admitted yet that his current school cannot meet his needs?

     

    You need to prove that X school is the only school that can meet his needs (academic, emotional, behavioural, life and independence). If that school happens to be residential then that is their hard luck - lol!

     

    Which school were you wanting to name? Is attending it as a day pupil possible? (often once they are in the school will be able to argue for them to be residential).,

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    I think those extra years can make all the difference. Our children are often a bit less mature than others of their age, so really you are asking a 13/14 year old what they want to do - and few of them would want to stay at school.

     

    You have to think of your child's future (the next 60+ years) - he will never have the chance to get the sort of input he could at the school in the future.

     

    He will need to want to stay at the school though - otherwise they will not offer him a place. Can you sell it to him? He also needs to be taking subjects he is interested in.

     

    My son went to an excellent residential college and went in a boy and came out a young man able to live independently.

     

    (Is the law saying all children have to stay in education/training til 18 not in effect yet?)

     

     

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    You would need to already be having input (and probably a lot of input) from all agencies (social services, education and nhs).

     

    I have never heard of the NHS funding a placement for asd and it is almost impossible to get SS to fund in our county (apart from for Looked after children where they are already spending a lot of money on caring for them). SS refused to take any part in education discussions when we were considering residential, and I know they just didn't turn up to a Tribunal meeting when they were told to do an assessment and attend. I don't know if things are any easier now SS and education are both under "children's services".

     

    Everyone I know, concentrated on the education issues and proved that a certain school was the only one that could meet all their child's needs - and that school just happened to be residential.

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    When we went through this process, the local colleges had to say if they would be able to meet his needs - this process was led by the Connexions person (the one based in the school had several meetings with him to see what he wanted to do in the future and the one based in the home area helped put the information together for a case for funding). I did go in to talk to all the local colleges that offered the type of course he wanted to do, first and told them about T and his difficulties. They all agreed they could not meet his needs.

     

    The transition review paperwork goes through what your child wants to do in the future and what he needs to enable him to do that. This can include the desire to live independently and the need for social/living skills. Generally if he is in a residential school and the school agree he woudl not cope with mainstream college, you should be able to put together a good case.

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