Please can someone help me with proposed statement

[macwoozy]

Has anyone any advice on this? I'd really appreciate it.

I've recieved my ds's proposed statement, and with regards to his needs in Chapter 3 I'm quite satisfied that most of it has been identified.

But I'm not sure if something that I think is of paramount importance is not actually spelt out in black and white, and that's his inability to work independently, he basically needs 1:1 to get him started on any task, and then needs prompting and encouragment throughout to make sure he does carry on with it.

On the schools application with regards to his SEN, it states that he is unable to focus on task without support, and that he needs 1:1 help and encouragement to complete any task. The E.P report states on the provision part, that he needs a high level of adult support, particularly for group activities, for starting individual work and during less structured parts of the day.

Under the proposed statement, they've included language programmes, handwriting and spelling programmes, social skills programme, and TEACCh type activities which I'm satisfied with, but nothing with regards to having 1:1 during normal classwork. They have stated that he will have support to help him develop his self help and independence skills, to work on tasks that work on his short attention span, concentration and listening skills, and adult support to develop positive behavioural strategies.

With this in mind, am I expecting too much that I actually want it spelt out that he needs support during classwork.

Sorry to ramble, I want to get this posted before my blinkin computer shuts down again, so apologies if I'm not making too much sense.

I should have said, he's 7 years olf with HFA.

I've contacted IPSEA but I'm not getting through. PP have advised me to speak to the SEN team of the LEA but I know I'll just talk ten to the dozen and totally confuse them, and I'm still waiting for the SENCO to get back to me from the new school which he'll be starting in September.

Hi Macwoozy,I am bumping this for you - I faced the same problem when Ds draft statement arrived last month. I asked for a meeting with the senco to ask what support they were planning including what his timetable would look like(not enough support), and with the LEA after(to try and upgrade the wording in part 3 and add specific hours). I also spoke to Consensus (01284 757788) who support families at the appeal stage, but still talked me through it. Network 81 (0870 770 3306) offered to read the draft and comment, and the nas education advise line ( 0845 070 40002) to sort out wording. I followed the advise of ACE www.ace-ed.org.uk/advice/booklets/GettingStatement.html to nitpick parts 2 and 3 against the advice sections. In the end we got the change to special school we wanted so the details at MS were not needed! Good luck hope someone with knowledge comes along soon. I found it a difficult task!

macwoozy, I'm just at the same stage as you and I spoke to my friend yday who is very experienced in SEN, who told me to ask them to spell out everything (some of the provisions are extremely vague on ours), so I've gone through our proposed statement asking for a breakdown of time, content etc for each section in Part 3. I've just emailed my queries to the case worker, they like this apparently. I'm not sure if it's asking too much but as it's a legal document, it is better to try and have everything written down in black & white so there aren't problems further down the line IMO. My friend managed to achieve this for her son. I'm also seeing the headteacher to go through it with her.

Thanks magso for all the contact numbers It is difficult isn't it? I found that writing all the reports for the assessment far simpler than having to sort out this flippin draft statement, which I hadn't bargained for. Well done for getting the best support for your ds though.

castleintheair, I've made an appt to see his SENCO at his new school today, I can't help but wonder whether her advice will be for the benefit of the school rather then my ds, the way I see it is she's unlikely to want me to demand more hours and provision if it's the school that end up having to fund it, I don't know, I've become extremely cynical in my old age. Good idea about emailing, much rather do that than talk over the phone.