The school forced us for PLP

[Robinthebird]

The school forced us to put our kid on PLP on schools father's day event.

There was a father's day event in school today at 2:15. They called my husband from school and asked if he could come earlier because my kid was physical. He tried to throw a chair to teachers and children. Then we arrived there and I waited in the car. Then my husband called me and said they put our kid and my husband in a meeting room and they were trying to convince him to put him on PLP.

I went inside the meeting room and then I was surprised. Why are you not in the classroom for fathers day event? I said.

Then we said we don't want to talk and we left.

I called citizens advice. They said they are going to call back in 10 days.
I cannot work they put him on PLP.
What happens if we don't accept PLP?

PLP usually stands for Personalised Learning Plan. A plan that covers needs and the support required. Like what you may hear called an IEP. While it is best practice to involve parents in the process and some schools ask parents to sign them, these types of PLP don’t require parental consent. But I’m not sure if you mean something else? Because just having a PLP shouldn’t stop you working.

Why don’t you want to talk to the school?

What support is the school providing?

it means part time learning programme
Part time school means 9-12
They want to put him on part time programme. So he will attend to school between 9-12 only. They said because my kid does unsafe things in classroom. If he goes to school for only 3 hours, how can ı work?

If the school. Is using PLP to mean part-time timetable rather than the more usual personalised learning plan, if you want DS to attend full-time, he can, unless the school is formally suspending DS each afternoon.

Part-time timetables should not be used to manage behaviour.

It will help to read the suspension and permanent exclusion guidance if you haven’t already. Also the SENCOP and IPSEA and SOSSEN’s websites.

Why don’t you want to talk to the school?

What support is the school providing? Does DS have an EHCP? If not, has an EHCNA been requested? If he already has an EHCP, what support is in it, is it being provided, and when was the last AR?

Thanks. I will check those websites.

We didn't want to talk because we were there for fathers day event, not for the meeting. Also, the school wanted to talk to us in front of our child.

Also this part time thing is sth that makes us stressed. Because I don't drive. The school is 40 min far by walk. My husband will have to do drop off and pick up and that means he will have to get break from his work. And I won't be able to work because I will have to look after our kid.

He has not been diagnosed yet. We applied for parental echna and it was declined. Now the school has GSP funding and they have got evidence and they will apply for school echna. No ehcp yet. They don't offer support. They cannot support him. All they do is putting my kid on the bin bag. My kid hates school.

I don't think they can support my kid and my kid is struggling because he has unmet needs in school.

Did you appeal the refusal to assess? If not and the appeal window has closed, request another EHCNA yourself now and appeal if refused. If the appeal window closed recently you could ask SENDIST if they will allow a late appeal. It isn’t guaranteed to be allowed but they do sometimes allow leave to appeal out of time.

Request a meeting with the SENCO. It doesn’t matter that DS doesn’t have a diagnosis. Support in schools is based on needs, not diagnosis. They have a duty to make their best endeavours to meet DS’s SEN and they must make reasonable adjustments.

If the school is 40 mins walk away, have you checked if you are eligible for transport?

Did you discipline your kid for their behaviour?