ds now out of school.. what happens now with LEA?

[minkah]

DO I have to meet them?

Can I just go my own sweet way ? Or will they want me to do some hoop jumping?!

Under current legislation and guidelines you do not have to meet them.

However they can ask you to provide them with information about how your DS is getting a suitable education. By law, you can choose how to give them this information - you can write to them, meet them without your DS there, meet them with DS, have them in your house, meet them elsewhere... Whatever suits you really.

Some LEAs will contact you quite soon after deregistering, some won't for ages. Some will be positive and helpful, others will attempt to make you jump through hoops and misrepresent the law...

If you go onto one of the HE forums, then you can probably find people in your own area who will give you the lowdown on what they are like. You could try here too, but the numbers of HErs are smaller, so you may not get the local info.

thanks AMumInScotland. I will take my cue from then, in that case, and see what they are like when they contact me. I have had a look around and havent found, yet, any HE-ers in my borough and there isnt any info up about my borough on the EO site. I shall just wait and see.

It's nice indeed to know that I dont HAVE to meet them, let them into my home or have my son meet them either!

minkah

this is the current guidance for local authorities and sets out what they can and can't expect.

minkah, unless you are on some remote island somewhere (in which case am ) odds are you have a local yahoo group. Think Julie has posted a list of local yahoo groups? Or ask on the main EO site.

I don't find the EO list hugely helpful, tbh, for meeting people...or anything really (sorry). I am a member, I support them, I broadly agree with them, but the only thing I get out of my membership is occasional cheap entry to @bristol.

Bubble99, thanks for that link. The first thing that junps out at me from that document is that ds can access resources at the G&T website, if I could register him on it. The link provided by them to register there as a HE student is now dead! He was put on the G&T reg at his secondary school, in the half term that he was there.. I wonder if there is good stuff on the site for him..

anyway, I know that is OT in this thread!

Must look at the guidance more thoroughly.. hate beaurocracy tho'.. so avoidance techniques kick in straight away!

Hi Fillyjonk.. I'm not at all remote, so I will look for yahoo groups, yes, thankyou.