Claw and Sweet you may be interested ...
Today, DS's EOTAS teacher was shocked that the final statement named mainstream and said that is they asked (only teaching contact as DS is out of school) she would say it is not suitable. She said that if the LEA intended to persuade him to mainstream they should not have referred him to EOTAS and that he was now their responsibility. Their plan is to carry out tuition at home with the aim of getting him (with the same teacher) to a small half-way house complex needs group and then a special school, again initially accompanied by his EOTAS teacher.
Very much - he is ours now and I don't care what the statementing people say.
Food for thought - whose policies are easier to meet and who trumps who?