My child has an EHCP. The annual review was completed in September with local sen high school A as parental preference named.
End of January I recieved the EHCP draft copy which named sen high school B. I immediately contacted the local authority to enquire as to the reasons for offering school B. It has taken until this week to get the answer.
The answer was that the parental preference school had been listed as school B. They knew this was an error, as they could see from the EHCP review that school A was named as parental preference.
As a result my child has not had a fair consideration for this school and is disadvantaged as a result. School B is wholly unsuitable (I visited, it was awful, current school senco agrees unsuitable, as does the LA person who attended the review and apoke to me a couple of weeks ago after the news of the placement arrived). The local authority manager who spoke to me to explain the above has told me she is attending a meeting at school A next week where she will explain the situation and ask them to go over numbers to admit him.
Is this good enough? What should I be expecting them to do to fix their mistake? I'm not sure if there is anything I can do beyond taking it to appeal - which in itself is highly unfair as it was someone else's error who has caused this. I'm so bloody angry right now, it's hard to think straight. I'd appreciate if anyone has any advice, I know it's probably quite niche from the usual high school appeal questions.