Yes we know him as the ABA Terminator on here.
He still has this on his website from 2011:
Parents are increasingly requesting local authorities to fund home based programmes for children with Statements of Special Educational Needs. Commonly they arise in the early years when the child is not of complusory school age. Parents will argue that the child requires an early intervention approach such as ABA or SONRISE to support their child into full-time schooling.
However, unlike early years providers, home education providers are not subject to any form of statutory regulation. Vast amounts of public money are being spent on providing programmes for children with very little outcomes being seen for the child and little accountability for the quality of provision being provided. We have direct experience of the following:
Home programmes being delivered and supervised by unqualified teaching professionals.Parents leaving their children at home with tutors, unsupervised. Lack of CRB clearance of tutors. Children never integrating into school.Children only attending school on a part-time basis as it is felt they are not ready to go to school.Parents refusing to engage with professional services.Lack of adherence to the National Curriculum.Children failing to generalise skills in other settings, including school.Parents using programmes as a form of childcare.
Baker Small is proposing to petition the Department for Education to require home education providers to be registered with Ofsted and to sign up to a Code of Practice requiring them to meet the same standards as schools and early years providers. This will ensure that home programmes are subject to regular monitoring and are accountable for the support they provide to children. Assessment of programmes should not be based on "parental perception" but clear assessment by professionals. It will also ensure that public funds are used appropriately and that there is proper regulation of providers. This will ensure that parents, children and local authorities can have confidence in the provision being provided.
Odd thing is our LA mainstream ASD nursery package was not good quality, did not have good outcome, was not delivered by qualified teaching staff, my DS was not integrated into school (he sat on his own in the corner and was left out of the Xmas play), he only went part-time, the professional services refused to engage with parents, no skills were learnt so there were none to generalise but even if there had been no-one came into the home anyway, and I used it as a form of childcare (it was a childcare nursery) and god forbid I left my child there with nursery staff who were not qualified teachers unsupervised! Oh and Michael Gove has gone and got rid of the need to adhere to the national curriculum 