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Gosh it is a long time since i have been on this forum, Hi to all of you who may remember me :)

 

Can someone explain very clearly and without jargon, what school action plus involves and also a resourced IEP.

 

TIA x

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Sorry, I cant give you any advice, just wanted to say, hello stranger

Loraine

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Hi Loraine :) Hope you and your's are doing okay xx

 

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School Action is where a need (or needs) for a child are identified and the school should produce an IEP which targets the areas identified

 

School Action plus is when school action has not worked (or not worked as well as intended) and outside agencies (eg outreach workers, speech and language etc) are asked to come and advise.

 

HTH

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hi there liny - lou

what the school are saying is that your child needs extra support; But big (But) they need to get exta support? LEA lots of red tape ect ect . IEP. At all cost's the LEA will try not to fund your childs support! Read: SEN Codes of Practice! you will find it hard to decifer.

At the end of the day the LEA have DUTY to support your son. GET a STATEMENT OF SPECIAL NEEDS! get it through your GP , SCHOOL, ED Phy get a dg

Hope this helps

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School action is where your child needs more help than other children to make sufficient progress. This help is given by the school (eg: small group work/interventions). Your child should have an IEP (or provision map).

 

When your child has been given this help and are still not making sufficient progress, then the school looks to outside professionals for help and advice (eg: autism outreach, OT, SaLT). This is call school action plus, and the child shoudl still have an IEP (or provision map).

 

Different counties may also have their own criteria for SA and SA+, but they should still comply with the above.

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Okay, thankyou for your replies, here's the story.

 

India was dx Aspergers at 5 years old, in year 1 she had a very basic IEP, i was never involved in this, apart from getting a copy of it, it has never been adhered to. If i go to the school about a problem India is having, they look at me like i have 3 heads and make me feel like they don't believe a word i am saying. When India was dx, her psychologist 'forgot' to put the referral in to the specialist advisory teaching service, roughly at the beginning of year 2, They came in and spoke to India's teacher (who is the school SENCO) and she told them India was fine, had no problems and they had no need for them in school, they went away without even seeing her. India moved into year 3, new headteacher started at the school, i went and explained my feelings about not beeing taken seriously regarding India, In the September (2009) i was informed that SATS had been in to see India and would contact me in due course, no-one did, i repeatedly asked what they had advised, to be told- they will contact you. On Monday i had a phone call from school to say SATS were in school and wanted to see me, I went over full of dread, expecting to be treated the same by them as i am by the school, but she was FANTASTIC, finally someone was saying the same about my child as i have been saying for years, she was disgusted with the schools attitude, she said India isn't coping at all well, she said she wanted her started on school actoin plus asap, and a resourced IEP put in place, she said something about trying to get 5 hours a week funding put in place for 1 to 1 work on India's social needs, she also said if no progress was made in a few months time then she wanted to apply for statementing, school have always insisted India should not be statemented because academically she is very bright, they don't really care wether she is struggling socially or not. There is SO much more i could say, but that is a very basic version of what is going on.

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