Need advice urgently.....

[harmony76]

Hello

I would firslty like to say phew for finding this site...
My daughter suffers from Severe learning disabilities and sensory perception dysfunction. She has been in a main stream school but attending what was known as the unit...
I am moving house in 2 weeks time and only to recieve a phonecall today from the council child team educational services, that my daughter will be attending just a normal mainstream school, she is 6 in 3 weeks but due to her needs she has been left in reception, since she was 3. I also find out that the support that she is supposed to be having, she is no longer recieing and noone informed me, please can anyone give me advice, can they put my daughter in a normal mainstream school even though she is fully statemented and this school she is attending now is not a good school, for her. I just dont know what to do, I have tried phoning various areas and I get nowhere and Im so worried...

Many thanks for any advice that can be given..

Firstly, I would recommend you re-posting here as that part of the boards is busier and you will get more answers there.

A statement is a legal document and any support specified in it must be carried out by the LA until it is amended. The new authority may re-assess or bring forward a review when you move to the new LA, but until then any support on the statement must be provided. The relevant parts of the SEN Code of Practice are these:

8:113 When the responsibility for a child with special educational needs changes from the LEA
maintaining the statement (the old authority) to another LEA (the new authority), the old
authority must transfer the statement to the new authority. They may also transfer any
opinion they have received under the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and
Representation) Act 1986 that the child is disabled. Upon the transfer of the statement,
the new authority becomes responsible for maintaining the statement and for providing
the special educational provision specified in the statement.

8:114 The duty to maintain the child at the school specified in Part 4 of the statement therefore
also transfers to the new authority. The new authority may place the child temporarily at a school other than that specified in Part 4 where appropriate and sensible to do so ? for
example, where the distance between the child?s new home and the school would be too
great ? prior to the statement being amended in accordance with the statutory
procedures. Otherwise, the new LEA may not decline to pay the fees or otherwise
maintain the child at an independent or non-maintained special school or a boarding
school named in a statement unless and until they have formally amended the statement.

8:115 The new authority may, on the transfer of the statement, bring forward the arrangements for the review of the statement, and may conduct a new assessment regardless of when
the previous assessment took place. The new authority must tell the parents, within six
weeks of the date of transfer, when they will review the statement and whether they
propose to make an assessment under section 323. The old authority and the child?s
school should alert parents to the educational implications of their proposed move and both the old authority and the new authority should be ready to discuss those
implications with parents.

thanks so much this has helped me sort out getting my daughter into a special needs school.