its been a hell of year and after coming out of and winning a tribunal, i have changed from the experience.
my eyes have been opened to just how low LA will go and the dirty game playing that goes on whilst my 9 year old was allowed to hit rock bottom with no education.
the tribunal process with the lies, changing of doucments, sneaking off to email the tribunal and telling complete untruths about us and the list goes on and on. at meetings the LA officers would literally hiss at us and it was clear they had absolute contempt for us, they would not respond to any correspondence at all from us and we were met with a wall of silence.
the tribunal itself was a nightmare as the game playing continued in the middle of the tribunal itself. thankfully the tribunal saw through it all and we won - that in itself must have absolutely choked the officers involved.
my MP has been watching from the sidelines since the beginning and we found out later that behind the scenes he had been speaking to the head of education at the council about what was going on. when we won the tribunal i emailed him and let him know what had happened. i got an email back to let me know that he was now aware.
yesterday i got a call from the independent school, the LA giving them grief about getting my son back into school which is laughable as they have not cared one jot over the last year hence the need to go to tribunal.
then later i got a call from the LA officer, the same one who has hissed at us in meeting and been absolutely horrible to us. she was a completely different person yesterday, she was like my bessie mate and could not do enough for us and the concern she showed my son was actually now quite laughable!!
all the way through the last year the thing that has kept me and my husband going has been the complaint at the end we would lodge. we havent done it yet as we want to get him into school first. so why after the phone call yesterday do i now find myself sat here doubting about whether i shoudl complain? why i have allowed myself to be taken in by a 'nice' phonecall? maybe parts of me wants the nastiness to stop and us to all to work together but thats all i have asked for over the last year but they were unwilling to listen, its taken a tribunal for them to see sense.
so will complaining be worth it? know it will probably be good for my soul but then i guess its the long term impact. i dont want an apology for me, i want one for my son and for no more families to have to go what we have been through. know unlikely that i can singlehandly change the system but them feel if i dont complain when will their behaviour stop?