LEA sent EP to do hatchet job. Should we complain now?

[KarlosKKrinkelbeim]

Some breif scene-setting - ds is 5, in reception in prviate prep. DX'd with ASD at 2.5, started ABA programme at 2.8. We have statement which covers ABA during term time, we pay for the rest.
We have had more ding dongs with the LEA than I care to count.
Anyway the statement is due for review. They send an EP who instroduces himself as representing the local authority. Erm... anyway he lived up to the billing. Ostentatiously talked over everything I had to say or turned away, watched ds in the classroom for all of 5 mins, then took him upstairs to do some very low level tests of his receptive language. no way he could possibly build up a proper pictiure of his funccitoning from that. plus it was clear from what he was asking that he had either not read or understood his current statement, he had no clue about what the current provision was, how the ABA programme worked, it was a joke.
it seems pretty clear that he came with the agenda of proving that ds requires no help - which is far from being the case. His review of ds was so perfunctory I ma minded to go back to the LEA and say, diplomatically, that we have some concerns about the approach and we thinnk it needs to be more thorough. Downside - this makes the EP more hostile than he already is.
I'd weclome any views, or accounts of simialr expereinces.

I would wait and see what it says. LA EPs always do cursory assessments-but ours still supported us. If he is going to toe the party line whatever you say will make no difference. You can just point out later in any appeal that the assessment was only 5 mins.
The great thing about ABA is that they will always be on the back foot when it comes to data.
We have had numerous ding dongs with our LA about ABA and they tried to argue the school data was inadequate so they had to do a reassessment - until we pointed out in a complaint to the Chief Exec we had offered them the 3 lever arch files of ABA data for the same period which their staff had refused to read.
I agree its probably bad news - but then anyone who saw my DS doing ABA for even 5 mins would be able to tell its a million times better than anything the LA had to offer - which luckily for us is exactly what the LA EP said!

Thanks for this. I think you are right, I should keep my powder dry and use the defects of his approach to undermine him at a later stage, should that prove necessary - which I have an awful feeling it will.
The thing that gets me about all this is we do everything - running the programme, recruiting tutors, all the admin - which under the statement is the LEA's responsibility. And all they do is try and undermine us. They are bastards.