It's Over.......LEA have rolled over

[insanityscratching]

A little spat over 45 minutes weekly SALT provision when they had already agreed to a separate 45 minutes on a specific programme and the other SALT provision (would have compromised on 30 tbh) but I think that was more for show than actual intent as within minutes of solicitor reiterating the need to specify they'd agreed to everything.

I can't believe it, I have my life back at last, it's been a hellish 18 months but we've got there today.

The LEA has been trounced, ds's provision is assured until he's 19 which was always the aim and it signposts the way for post 19 specialist provision too rather than relying on the pathetic Connexions service here.

Absolutely over the moon

Fantastic news!

well done, such a shame we have to fight for what our DCs need, never mind deserve - excellent news

Wooo hoooo!

That's brilliant. Please stay around so can advise the rest of us when our DC get there!

Brilliant! Well done

I think my advice would be stock up on the and chocolate but I'm not going anywhere. I'll have loads of time now to MN mwahaha

excellent news!

Yeah!!! :)

How brilliant, I am so pleased for you

The LEA has been trounced

bialy damn right it did Eighteen months ago LEA were hoping to offload ds into the local college and lapse his statement. Today his place in the independent specialist school is assured until he enters post 19 along with transport and escort. Fees for school £50,000pa and whatever the transport and escort costs on top and hopefully I have earned my stripes as a thorn in their side

Well done :)

Fantastic news! Well done :)

Great news, well done.

What a huge relief that must be. Well done!

well done!!!

GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

fantastic

That really is an amazing result, well done indeed

Your OP made me cry!

Well done you.
Are you just happy and relieved or angry too?

I just sometimes wonder at how people deal with having to go to such lengths simply to win their child's legal entitlement.

Excellent result. I'm really pleased you'll get a break from all this now.

(but they should never have put you though it in the first place)

Brilliant!

Really good well done. But you shouldn't have had to fight for it. (What would have happened if you weren't able to ?)

I'm ecstatic, I feel vindicated that I knew exactly what ds needed and now he has it. I'm slightly pissed off that the last 18 months have been dominated by this, everything has been hit from finances to time and energy and even my health and I haven't given ds or dd the time I normally would and I hate that.
But I'm not brooding on that today, I'm determined I'll sue for educational negligence because I believe that will be the only way it will be acknowledged exactly how badly they have treated my boy but I refuse to be wasted by anger.
Interestingly now the battle is over my case has been passed from ruthless bastard LIO to the one who serves our area. It speaks volumes I think that they know they have no options but to fund for the next couple of years.
Dd's AR on Tuesday, hopefully that will go well, and if nothing else I hope they're at least wary of crossing me again so soon after the last battle.