OK well the statement came yesterday. Odd really. They have pretty well ignored everything we said n our response to the initial proposed statament. They have refused to name a school yet for when he goes to school, but said he should stay at current nursery until September (we currently send him to private nursery with ABA shadow one day a week), and then go to reception (without saying where they think that would be).
(We have a specialist ABA school in mind and will take them to Tribunal on this point, I think).
Then they have said he will have 5 hours a week of a teaching asst at nursery. We will of course be telling them we want the current tutor to continue going with him (I suppose we will have to offer to top up the difference between what a TA would cost and what she costs).
Then, although in Part 3 of the statement they clearly state that he should be on an "intensive VB programme", in an accompanying letter they say that this does not apply to any education he has at home. Not sure how they can say that really (at present he has a home programme of close to 30 hours a week, they have ignored my request for them to quanitify what an intensive VB programme means).
So bascally at the moment it looks like we will get some money from them for the one day a week at the nursery plus the cost of 5 hours equivalent of a TA, and that's it really. We are then going to have to start appealing now to try and get the school we want.
Anyone got any comments.