ASD Surrey and Bristol

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I’ve been lurking a little while as DS stated school in September and was very quickly suspected by his teacher and the SENCO of being somewhere on the spectrum (poss Aspergers)
The school to be fair have been brilliant and have referred DS to a doctor in the local hospital to get the ball rolling there. They also got someone from a local SN school to come in and give them tips on how best to speak to DS and generally help him in the classroom and they are making a real effort to help him settle.
This is in East Surrey but we are hoping to move to Bristol next year (poss around June time)

This sort of puts us in a dilemma as we don’t really know whats best, do we wait until DS gets a statement and diagnoses before we go or move halfway through the process and if we do, do we have to start again with the whole thing?

Sorry for the rambling but we really aren’t sure what to do really and have no idea what the LA in Bristol is like with these things although we have heard that Surrey is pretty bad anyway?

Don't move to Bristol would be my advice.

Saying that as someone who lives there with ASD DS.

I know many parents of children with ASD in Bristol who were refused statutory assessment. Bristol has a very poor reputation education-wise. Much better moving to an LA around rather than in Bristol.

Very long queues for dx too.

I would certainly stay where you are until you've secured a statement.

Thanks wetaugust - its kinnda what I feared anyway. We were only thinking of moving to the centre of Bristol for a few years then finding somewhere on the outskirts when DS was more secondary school age as although alot of the primary schools arent too bad we know how the secondary schools are.