My daughter (age 17) has some disabilities and health issues. She’s currently attending our local college undertaking her 2nd year of a diploma and retaking her maths GCSE.
She had a risk assessment done last year when she first started but things have changed quite a bit since then and she’s had a change in tutor so when she started back again in September I asked for a meeting so we could go through the old risk assessment and update it.
Nothing happened for ages, despite me reminding them, and then one day DD mentioned she’d had the risk assessment meeting, however, she was a bit concerned as she didn’t think they’d covered everything and didn’t really listen to what she said.
DD has issues advocating for herself, her memory is terrible (part of one of her disabilities) it was all very last minute so she was a bit flustered, she struggles with brain fog and general woolyness, so expecting her to do something like that by herself was a bit beyond her in the first place.
I’ve since asked several times for a copy of the risk assessment as neither DD or I are convinced it’s accurate but it hasn’t been forthcoming. I’ve emailed and phoned several times for a chat with them and for a meeting so we can go over it
What really worries me is that DD has seizures and no one has asked DD or I what they should do if DD has a seizure at college. DD says they didn’t really understand what she was saying when she was describing her seizures so I’ve asked for someone to call to chat through what they understand, how they want to deal with them, do they want to call me, should they call an ambulance, to put a plan in place, etc, but again, nothing.
SENDiass are involved due to some other issues and we are due to have a meeting early next week with the SENCO so I’ll make sure it’s addressed then, but do I, or DD actually have the right to see their risk assessment? Should we sign off on it?
Thanks!