quick question needs a quick answer, please

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just been told by Parent Partnership that as DDs school are not recording any support they/are not giving her, then even a PRSA will be refused as the school will not be able to show how they need extra funding to support her.

is this right?

My dd didn't receive any support at all.

She is now in indi specialist school.

Is a PRSA a parental request for statutory assessment???
Yes the PPS are right the LA policy is probably to slavishly follow the 'graduated approach' and require reams of evidence of failure at various levels / timeframes before allowing you to advance to the next stage.
But according to the law, no the PPS is wrong.

1. The graduated approach is not appropriate to every child. If its obvious even if school was doing all it should that would still not be enough to meet need then a SA and a Statement is needed.
2. A Tribunal would not expect your child to have to fail for longer than necessary because the school is not doing its job properly.
3. The LA has a duty to ensure your child's SEN are met. It cannot delegate that to a school and then ignore a complaint the school is not doing what it should. The buck stops with the LA. The LA must be sure your child's needs are being met to absolve it of its duty.
4. Doing a SA is a good way of collecting evidence. If there is not enough evidence to make a decision whether a statement is needed, then they should do the assessment to get the evidence. Lack of evidence is a reason to do the assessment, not a reason not to do it. They don't need evidence from a school eg a home ed or pre school child can get a statement.

If you haven't already you must personally submit the request for SA (see IPSEA website for how). You must expect it to be refused and to have to appeal. Either the LA will back down before tribunal and do the SA or the School will get its act together / be forced to do so by the LA before Tribunal. Its very very unlikely a LA would go to a tribunal with no evidence a child's needs were being met.

Applying for SA and using the appeal right is the only way to make things happen.

Many of the hurdles the LA put in place e.g. school must collect x months of evidence are put there as gatekeeping measures. PPS often don't 'get' this. The way it was explained to me is if there are 10 families and 9 hurdles then the LA will expect one family to drop out at each hurdle and only 1 child will get to the end of the process and get a Statement. You have to be that 1.

sorry yes, PRSA is Parental Req for Stat Assessment and thank you for clarifying exactly what i thought the case was/is, Agnes

I personally don't think DD needs 1:1 intervention, but atm school are willing to let her flounder as she is still attaining academic levels and smiling and you illustrate my thinking perfectly in your point 4).

They are minimising her issues, saying she's happy, yet i know that she smiles because she isn't emotionally mature or even aware enough to say how she's really feeling.
She has a DX of ASD. She has a full sensory profile from OT and 2 x SALT reports that detail strategies to help her access education. CAMHS are writing to school recommending an Ed Psych sees her asap as her MH is beginning to show cracks, she is about to have some Psychology work done with CAMHS.

she will be the 1