Annual Review

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If the school senco(who is a supply teacher) tells you that they arent looking to remove ABA, would you trust her and not spend on expensive reports ahead of the annual review?

I wouldn't trust that, no. Even if her intentions are good, she won't get the final say on the school's position - and if "aren't looking to remove" is the literal phrase she used, that's weasel wording.

That was my wording. I asked her that question.

I wouldn't pay for expensive reports for an annual review. In theory you shouldn't find out anything in an annual review you don't already know, that said ours have been used to try and ambush us about ABA. But I would wait until the point where they say they do intend to remove ABA before getting reports - we had one AR where we offered a file of data to sen officer and was told it wasn't required, then they tried to say they had to do a reassessment as we hadn't provided enough evidence. We dealt with it by formal corporate complaint and threats of judicial review (removing ABA with no evidence from a professional recommending that) and after an unpleasant exchange of emails it all went away and we were happy not to have forked out unnecessarily. In my experience removing ABA is done purely on financial grounds with no thought for the child or consideration of the evidence so even if you put in amazing evidence they would just ignore it as inconvenient, better to wait until you know you are heading to court / tribunal.