Have any parents faced discrimination with school?

[user1497304972]

Hi, just wondering. Have any parents themselves faced direct and indirect discrimination due to their mental health difficulties, in the form of damning reports. And what did you do /can be done about it?

Thanks,

Concerned Parent.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

What kind of damning reports?

The damning reports are not important.

Any advice regarding discrimination is welcome. Thanks

Hi user, on threads like these generally people are (understandably) reluctant to share personal details and experiences when there OP doesn't share any of their own.

Perhaps if you tell us a bit about what's happened then people will be able to help.

Just after some info you can help that would be great thank you. A damning report is a damning report I do not wish to disclose any more information, but any advice would be helpful. Thanks

I think you'd need to reveal your motivation for posting, personal experience etc for people to be able to help you ..

www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/mental-health-laws/discrimination

www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/disability-discrimination/types-of-discrimination/#.WT-PLPB4WEc

childprotectionresource.online/reporting-post-natal-depression/

too vague for me to understand sorry

Well, you say the discrimination is in the form of damning reports.

Surely you can understand posters being reluctant to advise you about n something they have no information about?

You mention both direct and indirect discrimination. Are you able to describe the form that the discrimination takes?

A damming report does not sound particularly discriminatory to me. The report might be accurate, for example, or the assessment of the report as "damming" might not be accurate.

A dambing report is not necessarily discrimination

School know my mental health issues as I've been hospitalised during term time and they've had to be made aware.

I've never had a damning report of faced any discrimination of any shape or form, in fact, school have gone out of their way to be supportive and caring towards the children and us as a family.

The reporting is discriminative in nature against me due to my mental health. I knew someone would give it the usual 'are you sure you haven't got it wrong' etc. Just read a post and answer it if you can, anything else in between is really not needed. Not going to disclose any private info what so ever. Thank u to poster above for links :)

If you're not going to disclose personal info 'what so ever', I think others will rightly be reluctant to do so themselves

Just read a post and answer it if you can, anything else in between is really not needed

The answer then is No.

This is why people don't like me. I am blunt and am not pushed into corners easily. Lol oh well.

I asked for advice not life stories but thanks anyway :)

Plenty of other forums. This was the first I came to as heard was a caring community that would be able to offer me advice. Maybe not then

As for what could be done about it if you have - that really depends on what the report says. There's options of talking to the school directly, using an advocacy service, getting help to speak to school from the cmht if you have a care co, or through social services.

If, for e.g. The report says Parent x is rude and abusive, when parent x has gone into school and shouted at the teachers, the report is correct. However, if parent x was psychotic at the time then advocacy or other help can get it corrected to say, while parent x behaved as reported, this was due to a break in mental health and this is what has been done to resolve it, therefore it shouldn't be considered that parent x is a rude and abusive person iyswim.

I think you've wasted your time posting. You're reluctant to share your own personal experience so people can understand what's actually happened and yet you expect other people to share theirs in order to help you. Keep telling yourself it's the downside if your blunt and uncompromising nature if you like but it's not getting you the help and advice you say you want.

Good luck with whatever the problem actually is.

Try the legal advice board. If you ask there for advice on disability discrimination due to mental health and how to challenge incorrect reports, you'd probably get more the kind of answers you're looking for.

You like to push other people into corners, OP - to say 'read the post and answer it' is pushy and rude! Life is a two-way street.

Schools don't generally write reports about parents so I'm guessing it's a child protection issue.

KeemaNaan most helpful thank you.

:)

Off you pop then to nethuns