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Emergency review Monday...

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Right I'm all geared up and wishing the days away...I have so far

 

SEN Code of Practise

My Borough's SEN policy

The Education Act

Houses of Parliament recommendations with regards to schooling for Autistic children

Most recent reports/assessments and Statement

Details of the only 3 schools we are prepared to take..

Our reasons for rejecting other placements that 'may' be offered (all professionals are supporting our reasons too)

*valium and chocolate...* :whistle:

 

Anything else I've forgotten you think I'll need??

I'm so nervous about getting this right,dreading it but can't wait at the same time!! :unsure:

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Hi.I am probably stating things you know better than me..... ;);)

Have you got moral supporter/scribe to come for support...I took two.

Have you checked that any professionals who would provide helpful input are invited and attending.Karen.

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You need to take anything that will show why you need the change of school

ie school reports showing lack of progress - highlight bits you mayneed to quote

school diary- use postits so you can easily give examples of behavious, diffiuclties etc

I would write a list ofthe schools you think you will be pushed towards accepting and dont want look at their ofted reports, visist i youve times and write bullet notes about why they cant meet your childs needs. I would also do this for the present school and note why certain things they may suggest wouldnt work.

You do need someone to come in and take notes for you as schools and leas convienintly forget to write down accuaratley whats been agreed in meetings. NB I had parent partnership once and her note taking consisted of 2 lines - completley dire so be careful

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Karen I have a friend who writes shorthand coming to take notes for me :notworthy:

Attending are EP,CAMHS,LEA :unsure: ,SALT,OT,TA,LSA,Teacher,SENCO,Borough ASD coordinator,Headteacher plus me and friend.

PP couldn't make it as she's attending an appeal but is ringing in the afternoon (she's lovely, been through all the ups and many downs with us!)

Hubby won't go to meetings anymore as he loses his rag...so he's better off not going as I have a pretty good relationship with most of M's profs,just terrified of the LEA one..last year she put the block on his move but she won't get away with it this time as even the school are desperate for him to go!

 

Pumpkinpie I have the last 2 full assessments for him at 6 yrs and 9 years to compare and all his levels have fallen across the board.. His home/school diary has been kept up to date with all of the problems this year.I have written my own reviews for my notes of the possible schools the LEA will suggest :whistle: I have visited them all nearly,last one tomorrow..Needless to say I have pointed out every single negative reason I can think of and his professionals also will support me in this *which is brilliant!*

I have gone through his statement with a fine toothcomb and matched every bit up with the school/s that ARE acceptable to us so I think I have that bit covered.. (also pointed out why the others are NOT)

Senco at present school is supporting us too as is the Head so she has a list also of why they cannot meet his needs as well as what they have done to try to..

Psych said she has never seen so much EVER put in place in a mainstream environment and EP says he is "unable to access the curriculum in a mainstream environment" .

 

The old highlighter pen has been working overtime also on quotes from various sources about what level of support he needs,and also more importantly what sort of school."A small specialist school" etc so hopefully that will rule out the LEA's plan to try and possibly fobe me off with a base..

 

Thanks so much for your help,its much appreciated

Dee XX

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Good Luck Dee, sounds like you are well organised, only thing I would say is remember yourself, take time to relax so you are ready & calm for the big day.

 

Clare x x x

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Good luck. Have you seen the school we discussed? How was it? Sounds like you are already for the meeting. Get yourself a few hankies - just in case. Take a break the day before so that your well rested if possible. Hope all goes well.

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madme lol I knew there was something missing TISSUES!!! I always well up when talking about him I'm useless!! At the moment with all this going on I'm worse than usual..I need to get myself into kickbutt mode instead :ninja: I'm no good to him if I'm a mushy mess!!

I'm going 'there' after the review as my 3 schools of choice only hold open days once a month or so.It's so the kids are not too disrupted which is fine by me it shows they actually care about their students!!

Off to see the Lea's other base at 1.30 today and just got my Sandy Rowe book back off a friend this morning so will be re-reading that to see if there's anything I've missed!

Spoke to LEA lady and she was actually quite pleasant..so thats helped settle me down a bit :unsure:

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Went to see the other Base which last year the LEA wouldn't offer as it wasn't suitable and to be honest I can now see why...so I have a list of reasons of my own for if they suddenly now think it is.

 

The Base is in a MUCH larger mainstream school than M is in at the moment and because it actually isn't built yet (!)they are in a temporary home at present and will move (due to building works on site!!) twice more in the next 6 months until all the work is finished...

Not really ideal for him at all.

The good news is the base teacher was wonderful and the actual set up of the place was great so its good to see provision seems to be 'getting there' in our borough,even if its sadly going to be too late for M.I feel by the time everything is built and set up properly he'll have left!

 

Had CAMHS yesterday and she seems really pleased everyone we need is going to be there,its actually our LEA ladies day off but she's coming due to the nature of the review. :thumbs:

 

M is getting worse by the day and school are really struggling to cope now.I'm torn between sending him in to keep up the routine of going to school or keeping him off until a new placement is sorted out...I'll be asking this on Monday too.

General feeling is that he'll be starting somewhere at Easter which doesn't leave us a lot of time to get the transition etc done but I just want him out now,he's had enough... :tearful:

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:unsure: Well I managed to actually get to sleep last night even though I was dreaming weird things all night...might have had something to do with the fact I watched 28 weeks later to relax before bed :rolleyes:

 

Tissues are packed along with a little piccie of M to remind me who this is all about :ninja:

 

Trying to keep calm but nervous as so much depends on this...Meeting's at 9.30 so will report back this evening.I can't be any more prepared than I am it's just in the lap of the gods *and the LEA* now...

 

:pray:

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Deedee, Just wanted to wish you HUGE amounts of luck today hun. Just read this thread and you really are a strong lady and I know you can do this.

Go for the jugular girl! ;):)

 

By the way, can you PLEASE tell me where you got copies of the....

 

SEN Code of Practise

My Borough's SEN policy

The Education Act

Houses of Parliament recommendations with regards to schooling for Autistic children

 

... from please?? I'll be needing them soon for my son and need to read up on them to see if I have a leg to stand on with the secondary school placement I want for him. Thanks. xx

 

Editted to add - Managed to get ahold of the the SEN CoP (Free) but getting ahold of The Education Act is going to cost me �18 I have been quoted on the phone. :o :o

Is that right??? :(

Edited by Tylers-mum

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Tylers-mum the most likely place to track down the borough SEN policy is probably the LEA SEN department or statementing officer.Karen.

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I found a copy of the education act online. typing into google should turn up some results.

 

I also got extracts sent free of charge from the DRC (disability rights commission).

 

I can't be sure, but there are also extracts which I think are from the educational act in the back of the COP under statutory instruments, althuogh this may be my memory playing tricks on me!

 

Flora

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Evening just a quickie as I'm starving!!!! Only just got back from local support group and haven't eaten all day..

Wellllll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

I think we cracked it this morning all were quite pleasant but erm.....forceful with the poor LEA lady :whistle: So we go to panel in 2 weeks regards to new school :thumbs: Hit a bit of a snag as to where as all agreed he doesn't really fit anywhere but likely our first choice is best so it hinges on a visit next week to beg the headteacher for a place :unsure: They all agreed with our reasons for where not to place him so really now we'll only come unstuck if the independent we want has no space...here we go again...is full really full :rolleyes:

Tylers mum will post up all the links tomorrow for you my grub is beckoning!!

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Dee,

 

My goodness you must be exhausted as well as starving. So pleased to hear the meeting went well and fingers crossed for the panel in 2 weeks.

 

>:D<<'> Clare x x x

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Ohhhhh I am sooo pleased it went well and those who needed to listen, listened. :D

WELDONE!! :groupwave::groupwave::groupwave:

 

Thanks for posting the links tomorrow. I REALLY appreciate it. :)

Will check in throughout the day k. :) Thank You!! >:D<<'>

 

Enjoy your food and have a good nights kip, you deserve it. :)

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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/c...478/478we01.htm

 

This is the link for the info on schooling.It is a mine of useful info :thumbs:

 

I used lots and I do mean LOTS of quotes from it all yesterday...I printed off every report then went through them all and highlighted useful phrases which were appropriate to our son's needs and referred constantly to the sort of provision that many of the reports suggested.

The most useful I actually used in our parental report too.I feel it really helped our case.

 

I got the LEA's special needs policy from our councils website.I also went on the National Autistic Societies site and printed off our boroughs response to the Every Child Matters Campaign. :whistle: These also proved useful as I could quote from them how its supposed to work...

 

 

The SEN Code of Practise was from teachernet and I googled for the Education Act I'll add the link on here when I switch the other PC on *its a windup one its so old lol so doesn't get used much!*

 

I also took our Boroughs Education and Young Peoples plan which outlines the provision which is being planned and put in place over the next few years as it had figures in there of how much was being spent on out of borough placements due to lack of facilities here...I tied this in with highlighting the Councils acceptance, in their own words, that they are woefully short of placements for kids like M *smug mode*

 

I'm meeting with the Head next week of the School we would like,seeing our 2nd choice tomorrow too so will be pre-armed with positives and negatives when the placemnt discussion comes...

Funnily enough we wanted a different placement last year(mainstream with ASD base) which at the time was turned down but was bandied about as a possible place yesterday.Trouble is M has deteriorated so much now we actually have more in place at the current school than that placemnet could offer and also he is familiar with the current school,layout is better where he is etc etc..

This time last year we would have bit their arm off if they'd offered it,funny how things can change...

 

Now have to get my thinking hat on to plan how to come across as an indispensable parent type that the Headmistress is desperate to have :pray:

 

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/Ukpga_19960056_en_1 here's the link to the Education Act

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