Annual review - sense of foreboding

[Desperatelywantingadvice]

Our first review is due shortly (will probably be a re-write) and I just have a bad feeling in my gut about it and really hope I'm wrong.
I understand that we should receive reports at least 2 weeks before the meeting but does this include reports from the school? I don't want any nasty surprises and e-mailed the Senco last week asking for various reports from EP etc - nothing received so far though. I think they are going to say they can't cope with him and don't want him there

Hello, like you we are due our first review a week tomorrow, I received a pack from the school today with copies of all the reports and was instructed to bring this with me on the day.
The have included one from the school, one from Autism outreach advisory service a copy of a letter sent out after the last visit with the paed (November), my parental form, a similar version which apparently my 4 year old completed and copies of the rubbish IEP's which we have had over the last year.
I am surprised by the absence of an EP report, OT sent a copy to my home address.
I am wary of the meeting as constantly feel that I am banging my head against a brick wall.
We currently have 25 hours at TA rate and an additional 5 at lunchtime supervisor rate DD is almost 5 with a Dx of Autism and attends mainstream primary.

Push them for copies I am pretty sure that the time frames for receiving the pack should be 2 weeks prior to the meeting mine was delayed as I put off filling in the parents form as I felt the pretyped questions and space provided limited my input and was uncomfortable with this.

Hi pavlova I have been sent our form and been given a deadline of a week before the review to complete this so maybe they have given everyone the same deadline . It's good that you get lunchtime cover as we don't and school have ds on a reduced timetable now so he's there for the statemented hours only. If I were you I would be chasing up the EP report.Hope your meeting goes o.k.

In our area, we don't get ongoing EP support. EP is only directly involved when there is a major change involved, so we don't routinely have EP reports at annual review. If the LEA ASD support service is involved, they are usually present at meetings, though and our current person happens to be an EP, which can be useful.

EP is invited to our meeting but I haven't seen any of his reports or observations yet.

We didn't have a new EP report for DS2's annual review, but now that we're appealing, the LA is insisting on getting one, which is delaying everything for months Quite annoying.

Desperately Do I understand you correctly? Your DS is only at school for the statemented hours and the school is not keeping him fulltime?? I didn't think they were allowed to do that...

Can you not challenge the fact that the school are almost excluding him from social integration with the other kids, am I right to presume your ds is in mainstream? Surely the review will highlight that cover must be provided?

Do you have anyone who can attend with you or that you could seek advice from like local parent partnership-are you happy with the school or would you like to see him placed elsewhere?

I wish you luck too, with all the proposed changes I think we all may need it.

Triggle - that's is correct. I have posted previously about this. Ds has a PSP and I have contacted the LA caseworker to complain that he wasn't getting a full-time education. She said that school could implement a part time timetable through a PSP. School say that EP and Behaviour support agree it is a good idea. We are definitely challenging this and I requested an emergency review (which has become an annual review) after they excluded him. Being part-time was meant to prevent him getting excluded. We are putting our foot down about this as dh has been unable to work because of having to collect at lunchtimes.

Yer what?
I know that home tuition doesn't equate to full time hours. But part time school??? talk about the worst of all worlds!

Do they offer reduced hours to neurotypical children who are just a bit unhappy at school? I would imagine providing nursery hours to a primary aged child is disability discrimination... either way I think you need to get yourself to tribunal to sort a proper full-time statement before the law changes and this kind of nonsense becomes the default position.

As dreadful as it sounds, I think I would insist they either take him full time or officially exclude him, so that you can get him either somewhere else or the appropriate level of support for fulltime. I cannot believe this is legal.

The law changed in sept 2011 as I was reading it last night. I aim from next week only having my son in school in mornings, he has been signed off sick due to anxiety. However we expect him to have a new special school post sept as mainstream not working - emergency review already held. You can have part time schooling if it's or medical reasons like mine with an anxious child who just sits there vomiting all day.