Just received a copy of the SALT progress report for last term (which was withheld from me at the time.) I'm FURIOUS! The school has used the opportunity to lie to a disgraceful degree about fairly important life skills targets that I KNOW DS has either missed totally or only partially achieved this year due to their failure to do their job. (Of course it's been twisted so that it's my fault 
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As an example of the sorts of skills I'm talking about - he is currently unable to tell anyone other than me/Granny when he's feeling ill or in pain. He's at the stage where he's going for playdates with NT kids. It would obviously be better for all concerned if he could tell his non-SN specialist friends Mum's if he falls over and hurts himself (most of his friends are aged 9-12 to give you an idea of context).
DS was measured as being 5th centile for receptive language when he was statemented a couple of years back but he's fairly articulate so the phrase "invisble disability" is VERY, VERY apt.His maths is currently held back by his language difficulties to a far greater degree than school are admitting, and his reading is still pants etc, etc. (I've worked as hard as I can at home with him this year, but the blatant inability to follow his statement by school this year has undermined many of my own interventions, if only cos he's been to stressed after school to concentrate.)
I already mistrust his academic levels as currently reported, so need an honest baseline for those too.
My key concern is before I can sit down and create a plan of action to address the deficits, I need an HONEST baseline from which to work, or I could be inadvertently masking/covering up their mess to DS's detriment going through his whole life.
Even if I moved his school today they'd need an accurate snapshot of his current attainment levels in order to help him iyswim. We don't need a full EP statement application style report as we KNOW what his needs are etc, but we do need some sort of independent professional snapshot. I'm wondering what the best low/no cost way to go about it is. (For my own reasons I don't want to go down the whole Tribunal/legal route at this time)
Can you guys help with ideas? (I'm too angry to think straight)