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Hello everyone, we need a barrister/solicitor but cannot afford appeal support, if we don't do this our son goes for surgery instead of behaviour therapy at special school, does anyone know of anywhere that we can get funding as we do not qualify for legal aid. Other half works and earns just above line. We lost our Tribunal as they (LEA) will not fund our k into a special school. They believe Haringey has good child care services and outreach services to support our k. Haringey do not have good services, and are useless in co ordinating and GOSH will have to pass care support on to them. Basically it comes down to this. Our son is on the brink of havng surgery for ACE PROCEDURE as he has bowel problems and has proved he is struggling with this alongside anxieties/school refusal for dressing up days, events, school trips in mainstream school. In a special school he would cope better and have a better chance of managing his bowels with therapy. we have had taster sessions at this special school and also he wants to go this special school we found local to us. Yes we had to argue about the expenditure and if mainstream could meet his needs, the Tribunal sided with LEA down to one HORRIBLE WOMAN WHO will be called MRS C. I was not allowed to speak long enough barely a sentence here or there and all the time she put questions the to LEA but they came up with no solution on how to get our k back to school at all, no recommendations were suggested or put in place. If this surgery goes ahead and now it looks likely as we cannot find funding, it will mean that the mainstream school will not be able to help our k as his statement will have to change to include his catheter and level of care needed with this. They refuse to physically touch our k should they need to basically they won't, they will call me and i will have to come and get him, i could be the other side of the borough shopping and i don't drive. We have TWO WEEKS TO APPEAL, surgeon is wanting to do a letter stating that he should be in a special school otherwise he will have to perform surgery. Can't submit this as its new evidence, although i am querying this as its not new but ongoing, Tribunal knew of appointment letter as it was in bundle of tribunal pack. Any help, anyone, anything please. There is no waiting list and the surgeon reckons two to three weeks this procedure could be done with months of wash outs laxatives etc. Our k was anxious about his bowel habit before this, now this will make it worse. with thanks, Sarni.