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Is this an illegal exclusion?

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MagicalMysteryTour · 23/06/2019 14:38

School is sending a my child home when she too anxious/stressed to stay in class. She takes herself to pastoral care and will sit there quietly until home time, she is no trouble. However, school keep ringing me to collect her. I actually don't mind doing this at the moment - she has been quite unwell with anxiety and has missed a lot of school, and I'm just happy she is able to go in at all. But I can't see it working long term. Child has disabilites (ASD, DCD, anxiety disorder) and an EHCP. I want the school to work with her to enable her to stay in lessons, or to support her out of lessons. I'm just wondering where I stand with this?

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MagicalMysteryTour · 23/06/2019 17:21

When she has missed an entire session they mark it as illness. But often they will wait until 5 minutes after registration before they ring, so she gets marked as present. I have been keeping my on records of how much school she has missed. In the last 4 months she has only attended a 2 full week of school.

There is no plan at the minute for helping her de-stress and get back to lessons. I'm hoping to work with school to agree on a plan, they have come up with no suggestions so far and seem completely out of their depth.

She isn't on any medication, this would only be prescribed by CAMHS due to her age, she's been on the waiting list for months but no appointment yet, I believe she could be waiting up to a year.

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noblegiraffe · 23/06/2019 15:44

How is it being recorded on the register?

It doesn’t sound great, if she has an EHCP is there any sort of plan for de-stressing her and getting her back into lessons?

If there isn’t, then the school needs to be working with you to find a way to manage this. If there is, and it’s not being followed then you need to insist that it is.

Is she taking any medication/treatment for her anxiety? If not, then you also need a trip to the GP to flag that it’s becoming an increasing problem and investigate your options there.