Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Too right honey, you know how like I am to have my glass in hand, duh does that make sense.... 01561 362292. chat ta ya soon lovely. c xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 I think Caroline makes a very good suggestion. I know someone whose disabled child is due to move to secondary school and the LEA say adaptations to the school would cost £300,000 for the one child. She says she doesn't care if it costs £2,000,000! (Not our LEA) It might be worth speaking ti the Inclusion partnership -some very stroppt people there. Margaret .. > > Hi All > > Have been reading all this tribunal stuff with horror bordering on revulsion > at the despicable practices out there... God its horrifying, we do have a > different system in Scotland but not very sure how that works either. > > Vicky, this situation you are in is just total insanity... I mean, does > actually NOT have 1:1 at all throughout his school day? Good god, what is > going on there? > > So would you consider asking for him to go to mainstream instead, it is your > right and maybe you just might get for him a bit more individual attention, > after listening to this nightmare you ahve lived for all these years with > tribunals and stuff it surely could not be much worse. > > I am so horrified, it beggars belief, Sally what about getting together and > doing some research/writing on the subject?? > > Love Caroline > xx > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 My son has been in an SLD school from the age of 2 1/2, he's now over 7 and never had a 1:1 to date. (it's now in his new Statement though.) Margaret > Vicky this is total claptrap... I cannot believe that anyone who had any > interest in a childs education that has without a doubt extra support needs can > say, he does not need any extra 1:1 and mighth become dependent on this, COME > on... Who are these people?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Is that verbatim note? At my tribunal someone from the school gave evidence -- completely misleading in a similar way but I wasn't alert enough to challenge it. Will the lea have a witness from the school that you can question? Special schools prove their value to the lea and stay open by taking in children who would be more expensive in mainstream. So they are lying to protect their jobs. But they are not used to it. The other point that I only worked out afterwards is that cheapness is not efficiency ie if something is cheap but not effective it may be less efficient than something that costs more. So if you have proof of effectiveness then you could ask them to demonstrate theirs. Sally Sass and Rem wrote: I have now been to see the new unit on offer to Tom twice and spoken to the teacher-in-charge on the phone too. I cannot believe the number of times she has changed her mind or twisted the truth. Part of our conversation HER ‘The OT comes in because some children have OT on their statement and when she is here she gives us lots of ideas for the other children. It helps us to do really good dyspraxia and brain gym exercises with the children on a daily basis. She’s a lovely person and we have a great relationship.’ ME ‘how often does she come?’ HER ‘not very often’ ME ‘how often exactly?’ HER ‘never’ ME ‘She’s never been to your school?’ HER ‘No but she’s available to give advice on the phone whenever we want it.’ I kid you not!!!!!!!! That was just one example of truth massaging from my visits. Mmmm, can’t wait to get Tom in there ….. NOT!!! Sara Re: Re: tribunal Caroline he has no one to one at all during the day, and at our recent tribunal our own ed psyche insisted he didn't need one! People be careful if going to tribunal that your "team" say what you actually want them to say. Apparently school and LEA are concerned he may become too dependent on one to one, I know if it wasn't so serious and all that. Vicky -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.0/639 - Release Date: 18/01/2007 18:47 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.0/639 - Release Date: 18/01/2007 18:47 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.14/636 - Release Date: 18/01/2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Different LEA's have different funding bands. It depends on your particular LEA as they are all different. With over 180 LEAS it makes it a beauracratic nightmare! On the LEA website you should be able to download there SEN policy. In that it should explain the funding etc Best of luck SaraSara E Servio "Sucess is loving life and daring to live it" Maya Angelou Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Dear Vicky, I was thinking of parents for Inclusion: http://www.parentsforinclusion.org/pihomepage.htm They are ideologically totally opposed to any child ever being in special school - some of their activists are very physically disabled but with no intellectual difficulties and may really have no idea what life feels like for someone with autism and why inclusion poses particular difficulty for a child with autism, but they are powerful and well-connected. I must say Henry's brief part-time period attending the local mainstream school coincided with his first learning anything much ever and I believe this was down his his having a fantastic 1:1 in the mainstream school who didn't have all the baggage of special school low expectations. Margaret > > I kind of like the idea as well Margaret, Caroline not just a pretty face eh? > Who are these inclusion people, have never met them, do all LEA's have them? > Would really set the cat among the pigeons. > Vicky > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Sally my barrister didn't challenge anything not one thing! He let the school and LEA say pretty much what they wanted however fictional. We challenged as many points as we could but our "team" challenged nothing. I am now complaining about how our entire case was handled and they are insisting tribunal is completely different from normal courts in that you dont conduct them in that challenging manner, and infact should say good things about the school in order to look credible. My people seem to think we just pick it all up at appeal which would be somewhere in the region of another 11k and then you have to go back to tribunal which surely would be another 20k or thereabouts, who exactly is benefiting from all this? Vicky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Kind of related: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6279001.stm SARA -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - Release Date: 19/01/2007 16:46 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - Release Date: 19/01/2007 16:46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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