Guardian Article on SEN legislation "Another Omnishambles"

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A potential recruit / ally for our campaign???

Yes indeed. We need to keep a note of all these sympathetic journos

Sarah spiller is another. I have her tel no somewhere and have spoken to her before.

Oh yes, definitely!

Amelia gentleman (also guardian) seems quite sympathetic on social agenda issues too.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-466945/We-proper-education-autistic-son.html

She might even be a MNer.

Bet she lurks if nothing else!

I have no idea what your post means zzzzz, lol

it was dated 2007 so way to early for me to think who it could be.

I have started a file!

ROFL at 'I've started a file'.

I know it means something here, but that is one of the list of interventions we received for ds i.e. someone 'started a file'.

Tee hee, perhaps we should use the lingua franca of that culture in our campaigning..... 'I've started a file', 'we did some observations and we would never have been able to spot the Minister for Education, it's so hard to tell, he looks just like all the other Tories' etc etc '

Honesty. I looked at the professional in question at a TAC and said 'what outcomes have there been as a result of your involvement with ds'.

She looked at me horrified and said 'I've started a file'.

I've never seen said file btw. And to this day have no idea how that is an outcome for ds.

actually, come to think of it, dh is a bit like this.

I didn't do x because I was 'looking after the children/running the bath/washing the dishes in the dishwasher/charging up a battery' whatever - lol.

tbh, he's not as lazy as that sounds. It just doesn't OCCUR to him to be doing something WHILE the bath is running etc. and those answers are his self-defense.

I guess that was true of the 'professional'. They just don't know how crap they are until someone points it out and they just won't accept it from a parent.

These 'plans' sound just like the rubbish 'Co ordinated Support Plans' we have in Scotland. ds1 (very eventually) got a CSP and it states 'weekly speech therapy'. SALT told us 'We don't do that' thus ending the story as far as the LEA were concerned. So 'Co ordinated' is another of those terms of art in which the actual meaning is something totally different - like 'We've stuck in some stuff that thankfully will never happen'