Ten weeks after sa started no formal decision letter. Two weeks after the deadline no nil sent. Please tell me I can appeal now?

[2boysnamedR]

Surely 12 weeks after the start of statutory assessment if I still do not have a formal decision letter I can appeal? I was told via email it's a nil but nothing formal and the deadline was last week

Phone the LGO hotline - it'll be on their website. Normally the LGO can't act before you've gone through the official LA complaints process - but in some cases, if the matter is urgent, then they can act sooner - and if you are running out of time to lodge an appeal, I would imagine that this is now becoming urgent. Phone them and ask their advice.

Sorry - what's the LGO? Local government office?

Local Government Ombudsman.

They are supposed to look into matters like this :-)

I would treat your email as a formal letter, as they probably are.

Sorry - I answered your other thread before seeing this one.

Being told by email that the LA has refused to issue a Statement (because they will be issuing a NIL) is sufficient evidence to start an appeal.

I'd hedge my bets and lodge a SEND appeal now. What can they do - say you have to wait for a different form of communication, commincating the same decision?

LGO is worth a shot but if you have a tame Local Councillor they can put the pressue on for you.