ive complained about the issuing of the NIL is the short version.
the LA have responded and stated that they say her needs can be made at school action plus due to the delegating of budgets and that her school have 10k to meet her needs. the fact is the school is in a neighbouring LA and is a tiny school - school refused to tell me the SEN budget for the last tribunal but found it via the SEC 52 statement and their budget was £3k so how the LA can say this is ridiculous.
im sure ive read somewhere an article where it states that the funding doesn't really come into it - a statement is needed to detail a childs needs so even if their needs could be met I guess for under 10k then they still need a statement so that the needs are legally specified and the school are under a legal duty to meet them but I need to know how to write that more eloquently rather than just being a rant at them.
the LA EP is so wishy washy and I asked them to specify and quantify it so I could see if indeed her needs would be less than 10k but the LA have refused saying that they don't need to as its a NIL that's been issued!!! so its the chicken and egg situation again - how can I say yes her needs can be met at school action plus when nothing is specified and quantified!
they don't do panels for NIL and decisions over the statement writing - panel only for whether do an assessment.
I queried that she needs a statement as the code states if she needs daily access to a TA she should have one - they have responded by saying this is 'advice' only and they don't interpret the code this way!
she also needs OT and they now have margos report which says she needs SALT but none of that is mentioned
even though the tribunal last time stated that she needed specialist teaching as the class teacher said if we stopped providing the school would have to they say no evidence she needs specialist teaching
I do have my tribunal date now and part of me thinks I should shut up and just go straight to tribunal and put the response today in as evidence but part of me thinks no - I should go through the whole complaints process cos Ive had enough of them but its clear from the tone they will fight me every single step of the way....
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bjkmummy · 28/08/2014 17:18
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