After making us wait the full 6 weeks to Panel have decided that DS's educational needs do not meet the criteria.
I know this is par for the course but I am really pissed off! We didn't go go tribunal after the first refusal as the LEA argued that they need to collect more data about progress during a Wave 3 intervention and assure themselves that the school was doing everything possible. We were told that if there was evidence of inadequate progress there would be time for a statement before transfer to secondary in September.
The letter says 'The evidence indicates that DS's rate of progress is particularly attributed to his processing and writing skills. The school are taking appropriate action to support DS in these areas and his additional needs can continue to be met at SA+'. This is complete bollocks as DS has made a maximum of 2 sub-levels progress from KS1 to KS2 (expected is 6 sub-levels, adequate varies but is about 1 sub-level in 2 terms or 6 months progress in standardised tests in a 12 month period. The rest is proforma. I know they have a legal duty to give reasons for refusal - is this enough? Is the 2% criteria so powerful that it trumps obvious and longstanding regression?
DS is dyslexic but not severely so but also has 2 other SpLDs as well as a range of other differences/deficits and has been referred to the GOSH APD clinic and his comm paed is carrying out preliminiary screening for ASD.
As the letter does not say what criteria he does not meet, what evidence they are referring to, whether rate of progress is adequate or not, type of processing (phonological, auditory, visual, tactile - what?) or what they mean by writing skills I phoned the author as invited for clarification. She told me that she hadn't attended the panel, had not read the paperwork and did not have his file and so would have to ask her line manager and get back to me next week. She didn't even know what the letter that she had signed meant or how the decision had been reached.
We are able to relocate to Kent/East Sussex (from Suffolk) but am wondering what will happen with regard to the statementing process. If we were to stay here I would go to tribunal but DS would be expected to attend the village middle school for one year before it closes in 2013. Just to complicate things further he is point-blank refusing to attend. If we relocate it will be during the summer hols. Would we be able to make a fresh request to the new LEA or would we have to wait 6 months?
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