call me jaded Report post Posted March 21, 2006 STATUTORY ASSESSMENT A number of London authorities have worked together to reduce inconsistencies in practice by developing joint criteria for statutory assessment. The following authorities have formally adopted the document Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, the Learning Trust (Hackney) Greenwich, Haringey, Waltham Forest. Ealing and Kingston are planning to adopt them and Bromley has based their criteria on the London joint criteria. http://www.londonsen.org.uk/content/stat_assess.asp Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PinkSapphireAngel Report post Posted March 21, 2006 Oh what a suprise (NOT) Hillingdon LEA are not into this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sonia Report post Posted March 21, 2006 Harrow neither. Maybe I shall approach them and ask why? My name is well known as a parent !!!! Sonia xx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
call me jaded Report post Posted March 21, 2006 Hounslow have told me they shall 'probably' adopt them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa Report post Posted March 21, 2006 It makes no difference. My LEA are part of this scheme and they're still lying, cheating b*****ds who'll do anything to save their precious budget!!!!! Lisa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
col Report post Posted March 21, 2006 Pink, Hillingdon criteria is bad enough!! When my middle daughter got assessed 3 yrs ago they just changed it!! To 1 % or less. Have no idea what it is now but i don't trust them as far as i can throw them!! And now they must be going "oh no" as last month i signed an early notification at CDC and "said that they are just going to love me!!" And DR P.W just smiled!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
madme Report post Posted March 21, 2006 Ours isnt there. No surprise. Have you ever looked at the Endist reports at the vey end it deatisl LEAs. Ours is one of the worst. That 1% benchmark has just appeared in our crieria - anyone any idae where it came from originally as an idea? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PinkSapphireAngel Report post Posted March 22, 2006 Col Dr P W is great isn't she? I am going for the LEA like antything tomorrow and am going to make it clear to tribunal panel that there are on going widespread problems with our LEA re assessments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa Report post Posted March 22, 2006 What does the 1% mean? Lisa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nvapid Report post Posted March 22, 2006 this is "London's" version of these two documents (reformatted to look pretty and slipt into handy parts): Cambridgeshire http://senpartnership.com/docs/Assessment_Matrices.pdf Shropshire http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/sen.nsf/viewA...tion%20Plus.pdf itsn't it amasing how creative they can get at hiding and confusing the same information? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
col Report post Posted March 22, 2006 not sure on what the 1% actually means.(As differnent ppl use's it in different ways) But my DD who hasn't been assessed for ASD YET!! but she does have severe speech and lang disorders+social communication disorder and when she started at her unit nearly 4 yrs ago (now at special school) she was tested at 1%. Later on that year having chat with the SALT and head was told that she is not a mainstream secondary school canadite. And that i faced the possibility of sending her away to residential when she gets older. I have come to terms with the possibility over the last 3 and a half years but oh boy it felt as i just got hit by a shovel. That to me is what i think 1% is. Children who are very severe and long term. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa Report post Posted March 22, 2006 So effectively by using this 1% benchmark they're suggesting that you don't qualify for a statement if deemed capable of attending mainstream!!!! Lisa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
col Report post Posted March 22, 2006 (edited) My other DD was a 2 and 3. The only surposed reason why i was able to get a statement for her (even tho we had a sendist date- the lea withdrawn} was that i chose a school out of borough. She is mainstream with 12.5 hrs support, SALT and specialist teacher once a week. She has got ADD>ADHD and speech and lang disorder (verbal dyspraxia) and delayed receptive and expressive lang.And hopefully getting tested for dyslexia if the specialist gets her butt in to gear! (and that was fun asking for that assessment!) I am so dreading going through this again in a couple of years time with my son who is now 29mths old. He has delayed/disordered language and sensery interagation. The doc wrote that she can see a lot of similarity between him and DD who is ADD>ADHD. He tends to scream alot and bash his sisters up quite a bit..... I'm just worried the way the government is going there is going to SFA support for him when the time comes. Edited March 22, 2006 by col Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
