Safeguarding in school

[safefirst]

My son is currently on role at a sen school, he has not
attended since April due to a safeguarding issue, this was
reported to the police and school however there was no
evidence so school nor police could do anything, chair of
governors also done an investigation but once again no
evidence so nothing done, there are issues with incidents
not being reported within the school but this obviously
can’t be proven.
We have tried to slowly transition my son back to school
with myself with him, he started doing really well but
when he see’s one particular teaching assistant he has a
massive meltdown, runs away from her and looks
frightened to the point he is in crisis (this is the particular
teaching assistant we had safeguarding concerns about),
school see his reaction and referred themselves to LADO,
LADO said does not meet threshold but school need to
talk to this teaching assistant and do a risk assessment
based on trying to keep my son and TA apart, school
have admitted this is not possible as they cannot control
when they are in corridors etc.
They are sending me the risk assessment tomorrow and
have said I then need to decide what to do.
I don’t want to remove him from school roll as sen
placements are like gold dust as I’m sure you all know,
can I say they can’t meet his needs on safeguarding
ground? Can’t meet his emotional needs? As every time
he see’s this TA it will cause my son a crisis situation? Do
I need to call an early annual review to do the above?
Sorry for the long post but my son deserves an education
and it’s so upsetting for him to be in this situation.
For context he is autistic, has global developmental delay
and is non verbal.

safefirst
Unfortunately it seems from what you have posted that the school can't do a great deal more other than watch the TA and wait to see if anything else happens.

It would seem that they can't get rid of them without being in breach of employment regulations.

With that in mind it is possible that they are unable to move the TA to another year group if the TA's contract states that they are to work in the current year.

Whatever you do (as others have said) make sure that you keep him on roll as this means that the LA is still responsible for educating him.

@LondonQueen thank you, that's excellent to see the threshold.
Like you say there is no evidence and I do understand that from the schools point of view, the way o see it now is the school can't meet his needs however he needs an education so between school and LA he needs a new placement.

@PurpleWisteria not at all, yes I had my suspicions about the TA because his demeanour changed after she took over his care, but I had no proof so therefore it could have been any of the staff that came into contact with him that day.
There is no way he could do it to himself, how can a child put adult fingerprint bruises on there arm, not just the size of the bruise but the spacing between fingers.
If you saw your child react how my son did to someone you would be concerned, he has never reacted like that to anyone else and there are people he doesn't like of course but he will be in there company he just wouldn't seek them out.