help! LA want a meeting with us - refusal to assess appeal

[bjkmummy]

response by the LA due to tribunal next Thursday. LA have yet to take my daughters views. daughter has been made to re do some work for some mystery person and her work copied for us to find out its for the SEN officer.

Today we received a phone call from the SEN officer inviting us to a meeting at the school with her and the head teacher on weds.

Now I know this meeting will be to 'sound' us out - been here before so I am prepared for that and am not going to give anything away. I am purely attending so it shows that I have co operated fully and have been reasonable. I have emailed and asked what the meeting is about - they are sending me a letter apparently.

I know that the meeting will be an ambush to try and persuade us that she is making lots of good progress.

omg - I have just had the head of SEN at my front door and handed me a bundle of paperwork I had asked for including the sen panel meeting minutes!

anyway now after quickly going through the paperwork I have also seen what the school have wrote! they have put her 3 and half years behind, agree she is causing them concern etc.

anuway back to the meeting - how do I play it ? ive lost my train of thought now as the SEN boss at my door totally freaked me out!

bjk this link will tell you the percentage of children there are with a statement, on SA+ etc.

When you get to the page for your school look on the right hand side and you will see that you can download the full set of data. From that you will be able to see exactly how many children there are with a statement or on SA+. If you get stuck pm me your school details and I'll let you know the figures. It doesn't show the SEN budget unfortunately.

thank you but as the school is so small the information isn't published which I guess explains as well why they wont tell me the budget

oh sorry, I thought all schools published data. What about the Ofsted report? It usually mentions whether the number of children with special needs is above average etc

Small schools often don't get a big enough sen budget for a high needs child, which is why LAs hold money centrally as a contingency for this situation! You might be able to find the budget on council school forum minutes or council exec minutes as most LAs have done reports for councillor and school forums setting out which schools win and lose under new funding formula.

I know I have looked it up online before and it was about £5k a year the school gets - for the school to buy in specialist dyslexia teaching is a £100 per hour so that budget is not going to go very far