Last year I took the governors of DS's primary school to tribunal for disability discrimination and won with the tribunal finding that the governing body discriminated against him in the curriculum and his school life generally and in respect of specific events like the school christmas play. I also took the LA to the ombudsman and won again with the LA being found guilty of maladministration in DS's statement process. Also went to the information commissioner about information and pictures of DS given out without consent (complaint upheld). Complaint about physical restraint in school still ongoing.
Anyway have now moved to the US and we are very happy and DS is in a brilliant school but we went through a year of hell and his new school has had to work so hard to persuade DS that he is safe at school. DS was left in a very fragile mental state (self harming) and is very anxious about returning to the Uk even for a holiday.
One of the governors of the school also a LA councillor is standing for election to the welsh assembly and since I am registered to vote from overseas I received a letter from him this week seeking my vote and putting forward that he stood for excellence in education and promoting his standing as a school governor as part of his election campaign. Given that he knew about, endorsed and supported the school staff in the discrimination, and the way my son suffered at a school where he was and is a governor and also knew of the fight we had to get the LA to comply with the statementing process when he is a councillor I am just a bit upset seeing this as being two faced at best and rubbing salt in a not yet healed wound.
I am so tempted to write to the chair of the conservative party asking how they can put forward a person who has been found to have discriminated on the grounds of disability against a 7 year old but not sure if that would have any effect or would just be ignored. I live everyday with the consequences of what was done to DS.