Meeting with SEN Officer and Head – Advice Please.

[tensing]

Meeting with SEN Officer and Head ? Advice Please.

I applied for Statutory Assessment for Henry back in June, and was refused, no great surprise, Had a meeting in July to find out why ended up with me in tears (evil nasty SEN officer). Anyway I have had advice from NAS and IPSEA and lodged my appeal. Also contacted regional mediation service, who said they would get in touch with school and LEA to see if they were open to mediation. Got a phone call Monday while I was at the hospital asking me to attend a meeting Tuesday at 11am, so phoned her and said no way to short notice, managed to put her off till tomorrow.

So Thursday I have a meeting with the SEN officer from local LEA and Sons Head teacher, so they can discuss school action and school action plus with me, and how they can help Henry without it going to Regional mediation.

Any advice would be great, really don?t know what to expect, or ask.

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Hi tensing. Too late to give advice I know, although I wouldn't be much help anyway. I'm going through the statementing process myself at the moment, and just wondered how you got on today. Hope it all went well for you.

Okay had my meeting, Ended up with the lEA witch sat next to me, so atleast I didn't have to look at her. His Class teacher was there so she went through all the things she has in place, with the head backing her up. I agreed that it was great to see that they were finally doing something. Then the LEA Witch said, "now I know you contacted regional mediation during the holidays, do we still need to go down that road?" She was smilling at this point, until I answered "Well thats up to you really, I have lodged my appeal and will not be withdrawing it as I still believe Henry needs an assessment, so that school and the lEA can really get to know what he needs" Her face was a picture. "You've lodged an appeal, actually lodged it." She said, and then sat scribbling some notes while I carried on speaking about what I wanted, then she said "Can I ask when did you lodge it, you did say you HAD lodged it." "Oh yes I responded, last Friday, have the anknoledgement slip here if you want to see it." She shut up then.

Hi, been through the statmenting process with my ds . Beware of the parent partnership, they are funding by the LEA. Ipsea gave me good advice regarding that. Although they listen and can offer support at the end of the day it is the parent that really makes a difference in their actions. Ipsea offer good advice and point you in the right direction. good luck larsxx

Oooh, well done tensing, I'd have loved to see spluttering LEA witch! If you can continue with NAS svs it might be better but always worth keeping options open.