BusyLizzie100 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 What happens if Part 2 of a statement says, for example, 'refer to the reports attached for details about X's speech and language difficulties', ie without listing all the needs in the actual Statement - is that illegal? Or is it just bad form? And if the actual needs aren't listed in Part 2 in this way, can the LA then get out of makingn provision in Part 3? DS2's statement says this and, although it's not been a problem because he's getting proper SALT at his specialist school, I'm curious. Lizzie x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sally44 Report post Posted October 1, 2010 (edited) In my son's original Statement parts of the SALTs report were effectively cut and pasted into the Statement in section 2 and 3. All his needs were identified and the areas of difficulty that the SALT should be working on were listed ie. "comprehension, giving narratives, inference, semantics, social communication" etc. These were the areas assessed using Standardised Assessments and therefore we had a baseline from which to measure progress. It was also very detailed in the amount of termly hours to be delivered in 1:1 therapy sessions and a further amount of termly hours was dedicated to a list of 'admin' type things such as "liaising with parents and school, training the TA, altering the SALT programme, observing in school and taking notes, attending the Social Use of Language Group and advising on targets, setting social communication targets, contributing towards MEP meetings, attending the AR and writing an up to date report." I would have thought that the Statement is the legal document. Therefore what it contains and how that is worded is what your child is legally entitled to. Simply referring to a report may not mean that that report has to be adhered to in its entirety. I think IPSEA are more likely to know the answer to this. Or even SEND itself. Edited October 1, 2010 by Sally44 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
