Amending the Statement in Y6

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Namechanger as v recognisable situation if anyone is spying...

My son is 10 and about to go to high school in September.

Annual Reviews in Y5 and 6 have been and gone; transition review has also happened. 2 choices of school identified: m/s with full-time 1:1 support AND the provision of LA funding for school to build calm-down room OR (my bluff "if LA won't provide what m/s school needs) pricey private Priory school.

I want m/s but HT of m/s doesn't want my son there (violence issues) and will only take him with all of the support that he currently has at primary - understandably - but LA won't confirm what funding they'll provide until HT confirms what she's asking for. None of it should be our problem but we are aware of the debate and the refusal to communicate with each other.

As a result (possibly, or as a result of my sterling reputation with the LA - paranoia perhaps) we have not received a proposed amended Statement. How on earth will we now be able to receive a finalised Statement by the 15th February deadline? Am I missing something or does the 8 week consultation phase still apply if they amend (when they amend, sorry, as they must change the name of the school by then to the name of the high school)?

I would be quite happy to let them hang themselves by missing a statutory deadline so that I could make yet another complaint, but past experience shows that they will use this recent review as an opportunity for reducing his hours from full-time support to 2 hours , just cos they can - so I am fully prepared for Tribunal (application, if not full blown) and do not want to be at the end of the Tribunal queue if that deadline is missed.

What experience do people have of this?

Get part 2 and 3 right then sort out the school?

Part 2 and 3 are currently right, thankfully. The Annual Review crucially recommended no changes to parts 2 & 3. But that means nothing; we rarely recommend changes, but the LA Panel have still tried to reduce his hours twice in 3 years and it has taken a Tribunal application to get them to reverse this.

My fear is him going to high school with crap amended Statement that we will have to appeal but will have to do it late iyswim because they make the crap amendments late.

He will be going to the m/s school and everyone knows it. It's making sure that he starts with the right support so that he has more chance of success that's the difficult bit!

I don't want any changes to Parts 2 and 3 - I just want the name of the high school amended but, of course, reviewing it at all gives them a chance to mess about with it .

As long as all the professionals are saying the same things as they were then the review should not be a problem. However sounds like the mainstream Head could be a hurdle?

Wasuup, the SEN panel here care not a jot about evidence and what the people who know the child say at reviews. They reduce reduce reduce and then say "we feel that he needs x"...despite never having met my son!

Yep, the m/s head will be a problem but I get why she's nervous. I would be. Plus it doesn't help that she's my boss and I teach at the high school!

My stress levels are currently at 99.9%.