Can my son access extra help at nursery?

[Annonnn]

My son has just started nursery in East Renfrewshire (South side of Glasgow), we lived in that area when we had to apply for nursery but a few months after we moved 15 minutes away which puts us in to Glasgow Council area.
My son has ASD and just started at the nursery in East renfrewshire last week (undiagnosed asd due to wait time and our previous health visitor dropping the ball but it is very obvious) and will need extra support at nursery.
Anyway, when we first moved house and changed health visitor I made a point of asking her if we would need to change nurseries, she said we wouldn't so we decided to keep him at the east ren one since my mum lives just along the road from it.
I dropped my son off for his 2 hour a day this morning and the woman that is my sons group leader informed me that my son won't be able to access any sort of extra support in nursery because he lives just outside the area
This post is partly just a rant because our new health visitor knew he would likely need support and knew we didn't live in the nursery area and never said a word about it and also partly to ask if it's true there is no support available to my son if he stays at this nursery or if anyone else has been in a similar situation?
Location wise his current nursery is by far the best for us since it is so close to my mums house for if he needs to leave early and changing after he's been there a good few times would be tough on him

I am not sure that is correct information.

I work in Scottish education. Is it a Council nursery or private? Children who attend school on placing requests can access ASN support regardless of where they live. Indeed some children attend schools outside their catchment for that very reason. I cannot see why it would be different for nursery age. Once a child is on the roll no distinction is made based on residency.

It might be that the nursery does not have the right resources to support your child. Or possibly that they can’t support without the formal diagnosis.

Hi, thank you for responding! It's a council nursery, he should be in 9am - 3pm daily but at the moment he's only in for an hour or two a day, partly so he can get use to the place but also because he needs 1 to 1 attention that they can't really give for longer than that.
From what they've said, the psychologist that goes to the nursery every so often is usually the one that decides what extra support the kids need and then goes through the health visitor to get it, but because our health visitor is in Glasgow rather than East renfrewshire and the funding for additional help would have to come from Glasgow City Council they wouldn't be able to do it :(

Sorry don't know personally for Scotland but I understand things to be as PP has said. I would speak to the council in the area the nursery is first and check that what the nursery has said is right.

I think @Annonnn it's to do with cross council boundaries? Has there been a TAC meeting (team around the child)

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You could try this team? As I council you must have filled out placing request form, so am assuming they'll know you're out of area?

I should clarify that when we made the original application we were living in the area the nursery is in (the application deadline was February I believe), then we moved in May after he had already been accepted. We did speak to the nursery a few times before my son started there and there was no mention of issued when it came to additional help, they were always very reassuring but I'm guessing they couldn't decide if he actually needed any extra help until they met him.
There haven't been any TAC meetings yet but I will definitely contact East ren council to find out more information from them.

Have no idea what I meant by 'I council' there so glad you understood my post! Good luck!

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