Thanks Riven. He has a proposed statement, but they have only named a special needs school in the part 4. They know I have employed legal assistance from someone who has a nearly 100% success rate against them in recent years. I got a letter this week suggesting that they may put a maintained mainstream school - although have not named a specific one- so they seem to be backing off quickly to avoid the expense of a tribunal.
He needs positive NT role models, I'm not against SN education - DS went to SN nursery. In fact he could have spent another year there (can go until 5) but the nursery suggested as one of their older most able pupils he would get little benefit from remaining in the mixed age (2.5 -5) class.
He has always done dual placement in MS and got on really well, far better than in SN.
LEA expected him to start full time school in Sept, but I knew he wouldn't be ready and didn't ever put his name down.
The positive part of having independent assessments done as we approach the tribunal is that I have discovered lots of things about DS, I'd always been told he had a language delay - he doesn't, he has a speech disorder caused by the muscle tone problems he has.