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We won our disability discrimination tribunal!

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pannetone · 12/03/2013 22:44

Actually only on one of our claims (out of five!) - tribunal found that DS2's school failed to make reasonable adjustments for him (he is HFA ASD)when he went into the sixth form. They have ordered an apology for him and us, for monitoring and communication policies to be reviewed and training for all staff in ASD and liasion with parents! The remedies are more far reaching than we had expected - at the hearing the judge made it sound unlikely they would order policy changes or training.

Only downside(which we were told at the hearing) is that they couldn't give the remedy we wanted for DS - for him to be allowed to do an extra year. Tribunal said it was outside their juridiction as it would be an 'admissions' issue.

We are pretty pleased with the result - which seems somewhat ironic as we are 'celebrating' that the tribunal has recognised that the school did discriminate against DS!

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MareeyaDolores · 12/03/2013 22:50

Grin that tribunal did such a good job

janejones · 12/03/2013 22:59

That's great.I have just started a thread regarding disability discrimination tribunal so would be glad of any advice.Did you have legal representation? What were the costs?

pannetone · 12/03/2013 23:01

Replied on your thread jane!

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nupurkumarika · 12/03/2013 23:04

Brilliantly!

lougle · 13/03/2013 07:03

Well done!

Handywoman · 13/03/2013 07:19

Brilliant! Well done.

sazale · 13/03/2013 07:28

Fantastic!

bjkmummy · 13/03/2013 08:41

Well done!

StarlightMcKenzie · 13/03/2013 08:57

Brilliant!

And thank you. Every parent that does this helps us all.

flowwithit · 13/03/2013 08:59

Well done!

Tootsandblanket · 13/03/2013 13:08

Well done!

HotheadPaisan · 13/03/2013 13:31

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PlentyOfFreeTime · 13/03/2013 13:42

Pannetone - well done. Your hard work paid off - excellent.

This was of particular interest to me as had I followed through with my Tribunal hearing I was asking for a repeat of Year 10 that DS missed due to illness, so I would have been asking for an extra year too.

tryingtokeepintune · 13/03/2013 14:10

Well done!

EllenJaneisstillnotmyname · 13/03/2013 14:46

Thanks and well done!

auntevil · 13/03/2013 19:06

Thank you in advance for any of us that have DCs still not up to that age group.

A fight won by 1, helps us all Smile

2tirednot2fight · 13/03/2013 19:10

That's great news, well Panetone

2tirednot2fight · 13/03/2013 19:11

That's great news, well done Panetone

AgnesDiPesto · 13/03/2013 20:08

Well done! even if you only one on one point I am sure it will make a difference to children coming behind because they won't want to be in this situation again.

coff33pot · 13/03/2013 23:10

oh well done! Thanks

you won on a major point. That they failed your son and must appologise, therefore admission on their part plus the insistence of training. Just brilliant!

Also like everyone else has said a big thank you to you for helping towards our DCs futures x

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