I am just wondering what happens in regard to entitlement to SEN support if you have a statemented child but you choose to send them to an indepedent school (paying fees yourself). Often independent shcools will take the child but will charge extra on top of their normal fees for one to one support the child needs. If in a mainstream school with a statement the child would get a teaching assistant assigned to them for x hours a week. So would the LA still provide one to one support assistant for the child if that was in an independent school setting? I am not suggesting that the LA pays the private school fees but that they pay for the extra support that child would ordinarily have in a mainstream setting.
I think it will also be interesting to see if the direct payements in the green paper can be spent on one to one support for a child in an independent school
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henryhsmum · 30/04/2011 15:17
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