LGO complaint

[benito]

I have made a complaint to the LGO about the failure to implement DS's statement. We are 8-9 weeks on and he still doesn't have half his provision: SALT, OT, social communication groups etc. Indeed, 'expert' agencies are only just starting to come into school. The LA EP only came in this week and the ASD team hasn't been in yet.

School are clueless so I have kept DS with part-time schooling (which he's been doing for the last few months) until this gets sorted.

School told me (and this was confirmed by parent partnership) that the LA give guidance that schools have 8 weeks to get the statement in place. This is clearly a load of old bollocks. This mcuh the LA agree (although they are denying ever advising schools etc of an 8 week leeway).

Like most childen with an ASD, DS has a variety of needs which all impact on each other and this really needs multi-agency working. Everyone nods about this but no one does it. I raised this at a meeting with the LA in January who agreed that this would happen once a statement has been issued and I feel there should have been a meeting of minds if not people on this at the start.

I have a meeting with the SEN team boss next week as a result of the LGO complaint and a more general complaint about their mishandling of the whole process (we have an appeal against the statement in at SENDIST with a hearing in July).

I suppose I wanted to know if anyone else had taken a complaint to the LGO or had problems with statement enforcement.

The LA have tried to suggest that this was all part of a grand plan and they didn't want to bombard my little petal with lots of 'intensive provision' as he returns to school! All those lap top games, social skills groups with pals are so onerous compared to being in the class of 34 lectured at all day!

i took complaint to lgo last year and we had a meeting with lea and the lgo found lea had failed to provide education for my dd for 3months but the lgo found 27 failings with the school that dd attended for all of 6 times over 6 weeks, the lgo couldn't do anything about school failings. the schools only have to answer to the governors and they always come down on side of the school. the school hadn't provided any of the things listed on statement and they refused and kicked dd out

That's awful. How did they kick her out? Were they just not prepared to do the things on her statement?

dd statement said full time sn school with nc where possible so the school would only have her in 1 day a week doing 2 lessons music and drama. all they would offer. and it went from bad to worse as dd should of been doing gcse's, when dd asked ht she was told to go away n moan to someone else who gives a dam. dd got upset and went into meltdown, school called police to escort her off school grounds . they didn't meet any of dd needs and as a sn school they don't teach anyone with asd asp etc as advertised on the school website saying they do. we have been told only way we can do anything about school failings is going legal.our mp has looked into this and found a massive loophole in this area and says it will take years to sort it out. but there is a lot more to the failings of the school as i said lgo found 27

God that sounds terrible - you poor thing and your poor DD.

That's the problem in the end isn't it, if you have a school which doesn't want the bother, no amount of statements, LGO complaints etc will change that.

I am on the verge of submitting a complaint to lgo, i have MP's support, and my complaint is with la rather than school specifically, but I am hoping I don't just get the stonewall response that davids did. God that is awful!

the lea blame school, the school blame lea. all we got was lies from both sides to cover up mistakes. can i ask a question? what would you do if school put suicidal child out on street and locked doors on them? another teacher drove by the side of my dd who was walking in middle of a busy road telling her to f off back to other county where we came from a year before. the teacher took so much pleasure in telling me this and laughing about it. but as schools don't have to answer to anyone apart from governors nothing can be done unless we go legal and pay thousands. btw this was a sn unit. i wonder how many more dc are being treated this way.

I told LA I was going to complain to LGO as they were not providing support as specified in part 3 of DD's statement. Once they received my letter the LA resolved the issue pretty quickly so I did not have to go to LGO in the end. Hope you can resolve this soon.

Thanks. Their response simply set out all the areas that had been complied with and those that hadn't. There is a clear admission that many areas hadn't been and the answer to this was just to list the visits planned by external agencies.
We are now approaching ten weeks since the issue of the statement and some of the provision will not be in place until after Easter at the earliest - 14 weeks later.

I think that is completely unacceptable whatever their excuse. So much for multi-agency working.

I resent handing my child over into these people's care - the lot of them ASD outteach, SALT, OT, school - all bleeding useless. You end up fighting for a load of crap provision delivered in a half hearted haphazard way, costing everyone much more in the long term.