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I was wondering if anyone has any advice. My daughter Erin 9yrs had her IEp meeting just before the break up of primary 4. I should add that we stay in scotland. Although erin has done really well in p4 ( she got her diagnosis at the end of p3), I am concerned that things are just drifting. She was supposed to be assessed by an educational psychologist ( this was from her IEP meeting in october 2011.) but this never happened. Then the speech therapist informed me that she was discharging erin, which i was very unhappy about and expressed this> so i wrote to the head teacher and asked to meet with her. I met her and two other teachers, i was there myself. I stated that i wished that erin to have a statutory assessment by the local education authority for a co-ordinated support plan as I was concerned that while P4 had been a good year for her as she has got older the differences between her and her peers have become more noticable and I was worried that she may smart to run into difficulties. additionally i wanted something in place well before she transitions to high school as i know that she will not cope without a high level of support ( moving from one class to another will totally stress her out). anyway the head teacher stated that erin did not meet the criteria for a co-ordinated support plan as she does not have any external agencies involved.( she statesd that educational psychologist and speech therapy are not external). Is this right ?. I feel as if iam being hoodwinked and just wanted to try and get as much info before she returns to school at then end of august thanks Cameron