Urgent help! Child not allowed full time education.

[Yummum19]

Hi all,

My DD is 4 and is in reception. She was born with a long list of medical problems, has had numerous operations over her 4 years but as a whole at the moment doing really well. She started school full time no problems and the school seemed confident they could manage her health issues at school just fine. They were told a few months ago she would have a planned operation which would mean no playtime/p.e for 6 weeks, again they said no problem.

Her operation was January and she hasn't been allowed back to school full time since. The explanation being there isn't sufficient staff to supervise her on the occasions she can't join in with the rest of her class. I'm being allowed to drop her off at 2 and pick her up at 3.

My question is, what can I do!?

They are apparently putting in an urgent request for extra funding but headteacher said could take another 6 weeks. Can I fight this decision or is there any way to speed it along? Is this fair or right?

Any advice would be really grateful as this is becoming more stressful than the actual operation was!

Quite apart from anything disability or SEND related (Eg reasonable adaptations, EHC plans) the school is under a statutory duty to make arrangements to support pupils with medical needs:

see here

This school sounds a bit of a shower to be honest.

If you're not getting anywhere within the next week and unless there are any complicating factors you're not mentioning so as not to out yourself, I'd be feeding this back to ofsted. The school isn't fulfilling its duty, and it should be very easy to make reasonable adjustments.

Your local authority should have an inclusion officer, I would phone them to ask for advice, also the EWO as your child should have a care plan.