Room at school but I need to meet with head and SENCo first?

[kak808]

I’m looking at moving schools and the council confirmed that there is space for both of my children. I rang up the school because I’d emailed a couple of days ago and received no response. They said they want me to meet with the head and the SENCo first because one of the year groups is already very “complex.” I had mentioned that my child says some SEN needs, but doesn’t have an ECHP.

This leads me to 2 questions: 1) They can’t refuse us the spot over this, correct? And 2) Is this a bad sign? Do I not want my SEN child to join a “complex” situation?

One thing to add .

where we live it seems to go in cycles school A gets known for a great Sen provision so they get more children with SEN’s than they can cope with so then next cohort here this go to school B .

My friends is a teacher in reception - she has approximately 1/2 the class with Sen’s . A large no waiting over 3 times the guidance for when an echp should be processed… My own Ds has Asd/adhd but I wouldn’t put my Ds in that class as his needs aren’t high enough so he would get lost.

Inclusion unfortunately is been badly funded so is letting NT and ND children down