tribunal in february re parts 2 3 and 4. current school cannot meet his needs. all professional reports say he has high anxiety and anxiety disorder and he needs specialist placement.
since june he has attended school part time only as he was constantly vomiting at school. he was then signed off for the afternoons by the gp and has attended mornings ever since - he is 9 - he is not gettinga fulltime education and he is falling behind even further.
current school agreed to have him back in sept on basis that it was 'interim' only and that outreach would work with him 1:1 one morning per week - this has never happened once. LA now say she is too busy to do that , at beg of dec agreed she would see him 1:1 but has yet to even make an appointment to see him
the vomiting has continued - did decrease once he went part time but towards the end of last term it start to increase, he was being sick at school and i was called to collect him etc.
he went back to school yesterday - last night was the worse i have ever seen him , he vomited in excess of 50 times - he was so exhausted that he slept into about 9am this morning which is unheard of. i have kept him off school but where do i go from here? letting him attend part time has just let the LA completely and utterly drag their heels and they have done nothing to help or support him. my mum instinct says that now is time to say enough is enough however i am worried that if i do then the LA may use it again me and say i am keeping him off so they cannot access him for reports etc with the penidng tribunal -0 have to say at this point they have made no attempt to see him and probably wont!
i have a social wotker - she has not come near us - the EWO has never contacted me but then he has a GP note so we are okay. we were having CAF?TAC like meetings which were run by an agency the council bought in but once we went to tribunal they withdraw all help/meetings as they said they could not be invooved on advice of the council due to the tribunal. the council has now completely withdraw the funding so they no longer exsist. aprent partnership also would not help us once we went to tribunal so we are quite isolated in this.
my friend said that enough is enough and now is the time to keep him out of school but she advised me not to get him signed off by the GP but i am nbot sure if this is good advice or not. she says i sahould say i am not sending him back as the school cannot meet his needs (have this in writing) and therefore continuing to send him inot school is detrimental to him - but what should i do????? its 5 weeks to the tribunal - obviously i have followed claws story and this has worried me about where i stand