Is full 1:1 support hard to get?

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As the local units are quite full I am trying to decide what support I would be happy with if I have no choice but to go for ms. So is ms school with full 1:1 support harder to get than a special unit placement?

Does full 1:1 include lunch times?
Do you get one worker for consistency?

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Hello I don't know about your la but in mine it is quite hard to get .However I do know a couple of people who have had it .One thing you may need to be wary of is job shares which my la seem keen on doing , to me that would see the opposite of consistency .Sorry I haven't been more helpful I hope your dealings with the statement goad smoothly as possible

If you had a statement which had a certain placement named then if it's a LA SEN unit/school then a LA can make a place become availiable sometimes.

Yes. It has taken me three years and two Tribunals to get 1:1 support full-time. The LA kicked against it massively and they always use the 'Velcro' TA crap - the child shouldn't have someone stuck to them all the time.

Of course they shouldn't but high needs children should not be dumped in mainstream on the assumption that they will just 'learn to cope' and a TA is not just there to babysit but to teach skills.

I guess the answer to your question depends on the willingness of the LA/SS to oversubscribe and/or the willingness of mainstream school to take your child.
My DS had 1:1 support at MS for 25 hrs/pw from Yr2. He was already at the school from nursery, so issues had been identified, but was on SA/SA+ until that time. School did provide 1:1 support before statement was given although that was more down to circumstance (a small transient group of pupils often left TA funding in place for a while even though child had left).
There are however no schools in this area with ASD units or even specialist SN schools for HF ASD, so this may have had a bearing on the matter.

DS had a different TA in the morning to the afternoon as this was deemed by the Ed Psych to be the best way of avoiding attachment problems. DS was not statemented for break/lunchtime supervision, so this was left to lunchtime supervisers, although one of them was one of his TAs for part of the day anyway.

32.5 hours is full time support.

Thanks all you have all been very helpful.