SEND - children’s needs to be reassessed from year 6 2029?

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Are they taking the piss? After the struggles parents have trying to secure support for their child, they’re then going to threaten to take it away once they’re due to go to secondary? Ds goes to secondary this year so I don’t think it will effect him but I am so angry for those it does effect.

Many aren’t taxied far from home.

ive known of taxis used to transport children just over a mile, with parent not working.

We both work (not sure why that’s even relevant) and take our son ourselves because we live within a certain geographical radius so he doesn’t qualify for transport.

We take him to school for 8am, just like “normal parents.”

Next anecdote.

It’s not an anecdote it’s my workplace experience. Just because you do something it doesn’t mean everyone else does.

Maybe they don't work because of the disabled child or children?

And just because you’ve experienced something ( and know nothing about the circumstances ) doesn’t mean every everybody else does the same.

Yes I am well aware asd is genetic, I am autistic, my son is, most my family has adhd/asd. I was asking more specifically about what you meant by sequencing babies genes ?

Well I don’t think that’s right as usually if you live within a 3 mile radius you aren’t eligible for transport

The plan was to eventually sequence everyone’s genes from birth. So early sequencing may lead to earlier interventions, diagnosis and precision treatment without a massive fight for parents. So early speech and language and social skills help, for example.
Then another poster butted in and accused me of eugenics! Which is the opposite of what I meant! That poster should apologise!

Oh look, two more insults to add to the list. Aggressive, blackmailing, demanding, sharp-elbowed, unreasonable, hysterical, lazy, weak, after golden tickets/gold-plated provision/the best education… and on and on.

Whether a parent works or not isn’t part of the legislation around transport.

Transport for DC attending a school a mile away would be because the child’sSEN &/or disability means they cannot reasonably be expected to walk &/or there isn’t a safe walking route SEN or not.

Surely if they aren’t working because they are a carer
then part of that is getting their kid to school

No one does part of my job for me. I do it all.

Does anything in the white paper or send consultation reference a change to transport qualification criteria though? Its long so im still going through it.

Remember, they are targeting ehcps to reduce to current levels of 5% by 2035 after a predicted increase for a few more years.

So in my hopeful view local inclusion hubs might reduce need for taxis which it does says in the paper where I've got so far.

But now you are saying they wont as people get them to go a mile. So why is this proposal saving taxi costs or did you just want to moan about taxi costs.

"ive known of taxis used to transport children just over a mile, with parent not working."

I know someone who had that. The family didn't have a car and the child couldn't walk.

"Does anything in the white paper or send consultation reference a change to transport qualification criteria though? "

It doesn't say anything.
Some posters are just desperate to say that this, this and this will be stopping when the white paper says nothing about it.

FFS, I know a child who gets a taxi to a quite local school, she is blind! It is not safe for her to walk there.

I’m sure you do, but your child isn’t disabled - I assume.

That means you don’t need adapted transport, you may well be able to walk there, your child probably doesn’t go to school 20 miles away because the nearest suitable school wasn’t in your LA - or even the next one, you don’t need multiple adults to get one child to school…. etc.

Mine aren’t at school anymore
I have three
One with Autism and adhd

Their school that suited all their needs, including his was 29 miles away.
Both dh and I work as Architects and took them to school, picked them up and carried on with our day jobs

Not all children offered transport need adapted vehicles

I was also referring to a pp that stated perhaps the parent is a carer….being a carer doesn’t in fact mean an automatic right to council funded taxis.

Is nobody going to comment on this?

You likely didn’t have to do that, I’d imagine 29miles would have qualified for transport.

Why didn’t you take advantage of the transport I’m guessing you’d have been eligible for then ? And I’m guessing your job as architects meant you were route flexible freelancing ? Not everyone has that freedom with work

What about it?

Its schools and education and covers:-

• Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) services: Funding for support services for children with additional needs.
• School buildings and improvements: Funding capital projects, such as building new schools or repairing existing facilities.
• School transport: Funding transport services for children getting to school.
• Children and young people's services:Supporting youth services and child protection.
• General Education Administration: Supporting local authority education administration.

You can fake nonchalance but 38% is staggeringly high given the majority of it will go on SEN. It’s too high.

@PlayingvideogamesNow I might be wrong here, and correct me if I am, but I get a feeling you’re not happy about Sen provisions ?

Pretty similar to services for older people. Good use of money. It won’t be reducing any time soon as parents with children who don’t have SEN don’t want their kids impacted by a lack of provision. Everybody also knows that poor SEND provision ends up costing the tax payer more in the long run.

I’m not happy about the spirally, endless rise in costs, the impact it’s having on the functioning of council duties, not to mention the fact it isn’t producing any satisfactory results, no. Are you happy with it?

It is reducing as the legal obligations are being reduced. That’s literally what has happened today.