Help to get taken seriously

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As I've made known lately , struggling to get correct support in place since moving my son school in September .
He is statement for 17 hours of support , has previous written in about exam support , old school had finally sort everything into place and he was doing well academically .
Reason we moved was due to my son increased anxiety , with regards the persistent bullying he was suffering from , most was low level stuff but it wore him down , making him constantly on edge , then he was physically attacked , and things just never improved from there in his head . We had police dealing with this incident .
During the summer holidays we went round and looked at new school that was opening up , which had a sixth form , starts in year ten . We liked the look of what we saw . Went away into centre of town had coffee and discussed what we had seen . Son asked if he could go after holidays , said he wasn't coping ( first time he admitted that) , I knew he wasn't and had already been to gp to get camhs involved , about his stress levels , person we had was useless. (We both thought this , he didn't seem to be able to relate and get my son to talk).
We decided to let him go , spoke to school (new one) told them he was year retain so would be skipping whole of year nine . That he was statemented , where his biggest difficulties lay as far as I was aware. Explained reason why we where moving him , they where more than happy to have him, these senior members of staff .
Well he started and seem to be getting into a better place in his own head and is working increably hard , but has had little to no support since he started despite me having various meeting , sorting out his iep , his statement doesn't seem to have moved across and I rang lea in October about this , the senco keeps saying he's doing well and that he dosent need more support , that he's not lying to me .
I've asked numerous times to have books sent home to revise from , he get them once than that's it , they don't like sending them home in case the kids don't bring them back , for goodness sake there fourteen or older , if they don't they get a detention or something , surely to goodness they need to treat them like young adults not little kids. As son in lower set there seems to be a fair bit for messing around in class that never gets sorted , one teacher had to even stop a test to tell certain pupils off for talking , then restart them .
I need for the school to relisease that he can do so much better when he has support available to him especially during test and exams when , due to nerves/ stress he read things wrong , writing is terrible to extent it's difficult to read at all , that his processing skills are slower so needs extra time , as with his reading age , but ask him the question verbally and his answer are fantastic compared to what he have written himself .
He is so hardworking that I don't want him to fail just because they can't get there act together to see this . He's now one term into year ten , so need thing sorting sharpish , how do I go about doing this .
Please help me , to help him achieve the best he can . Yes he still has lots of little traits that are him , but other kids so far have actually been really good and no bullying dispite him , telling them off for not behaving in class .im sorry this has gotten so long it all getting at me again especially as he was so upset with his school report on Christmas Eve , even though the comment where alright , he was upset that they don't think he achieve his grades . Especially in couple of subjects that he has vast knowledge in his head on , just not on the paper , and he had no support with these at all.

Hi homework I am sorry things are not going well. I must be very naive because I thought a statement was a legal document that LA's/school have to adhere to!!

Have you spoken to parent partnership, they might be able to help.

Hope someone will come along with more advice.

Good luck

The LA should have amended the statement to name the new school. Have they done that?

In any event, it is still their responsibility to make sure he gets the support set out in the statement. I would suggest you write a letter in which you ask for evidence of what the school is doing about each and every item in part 3. If they say that they aren't doing some of it (whether because they think he doesn't need it or for any other reason), point out to them that they don't have a choice, and copy the correspondence to the LA asking what they are going to do to fulfil their own legal duties. If none of that works, you could to go to the Local Government Ombudsman, but it would probably be better to go to a solicitor who can threaten judicial review proceedings in ds' name.

However, be aware that if they haven't amended the statement yet, they might take the chance to do so taking out the stuff the SENCO alleges he doesn't need. You will therefore have to have the fight about that and possibly also appeal to the tribunal. If that happens, you could take the chance to get the statement really tightened up so that there is less room for argument.

In the October holidays they asked him to reflect on where he needed help with and we sat down together and looked at each subject and type out how he was doing where he though he needed help also some ideas about things they could do to support him better.
Like books home for revision , if he hadn't fully set of revision notes a copy of what they had done , so he got full lesson to revise from , video interventions .
He already came up with photographing his homework so that he's answering the question correct , but some of them are very vague it's hard to know precisely what they want for answer , when no text books allowed home .
We sent them a very detailed email especially on the main core subjects . But dispite all this nothing has changed .
They feel he settling in well and school doing well considering only been open a few months , and yes all that's true , but still thing senco new to role ( that's my intrepration ) maybe not but promise you things that don't get delivered .
I'm going to do a parents questionnaire from old ones and get my son to do his from the email that we did , get back in touch with lea after holidays and maybe ask about a review and especially expect them to attend as we skipped year nines , which is suppost to be an important one regarding his future .
Don't want to change school as he's very happy , as had no one picking on him , just need to get teacher on board that cat test for him a load of poo as he can process things in his head easier than on paper .
Will send in form to speak with teachers again about results , feel bit like a broken record .
In one way happier as he's in better place without the bullying , but not going to achieve as well due to lack of support on offer at moment.

Will also speak to parent partnership after the holidays even though she closed our file again . Women actually been very good over the years , it's hard as always get told I want to much , but he constantly surprises people , he can be lazy and sturrborn like every other teenager , but still willen to try hard especially for his teachers , he likes to please .

Is your ds classed as having a disability? If so you might wish to remind school of the reasonable adjustment duty. The provision in Part 3 of a statement can be considered to be reasonable adjustments and if not provided may result in a finding of discrimination against the school.

Over the years when he was little we got told loads of condition they though he had , asd , dyslectic , dyspraxia with few other , was under community pead team , but cause they kept changing staff and he was making good progress with support , some of which we paid for , they never got round to giving us a dx. Then just dropped him .
He fits into so many different conditions it's hard for me to but a label to it , he definitely has some asd traits , another mums net person who we meant locally said that she though he had asd . He finds reading hard , still struggles , writing another problem , getting things on paper , falling over , riding a bike , loads of stuff he struggles with , doesn't stop him from having a go . Never has , he's very sturrborn , takes after his mum there .

If your child has a statement, the school must provide Part 3 provision - end of. Depan has good advice, you should not need to feel that you are being unreasonable.

On the other hand, I'm not sure what your relationship with the school is like but yours and their expectations are clearly different and you may want to sit down with them and try to look at what you want your son to achieve. Is it a happy school life where he is thriving and making good progress academically or is it that you want the support in place? What do you need to feel happy with the situation?

I think if you can articulate it in those terms, you are more likely to get school on side as well.