How can you ensure that a 'Transition File' is Truthful?

[transitionquery]

My ds is due to go to secondary.

School have never accepted his NHS diagnosis of ASD.
Eventually school contacted the authorites and expressed their concerns about me, my parenting, my mental health etc.
The authorities investigated.
Authorities told the school that they were satisfied. That schools concerns were 'unreasonable'.

But in the schools file there are a lot of inaccuracies:
They claim that they haven't seen a copy of the diagnosis letter. But minutes of a meeting, prepared by Parentship-with-Parents, , the school were asked if they'd received the diagnosis letter and they stated yes.

Schools reports say that IEP are on-going and current. But 2 years ago I was told that IEP's were no longer necessary. So I haven't been to any meetings. I haven't been invited to any meetings. I haven't re-viewed any IEPS. And they certainly haven't got my signature on any of them.

At the most recent meeting the chair suggested that we had a 'transition meeting'. A date was set, for a few months time.
She suggested that Camhs and the NAS attend, with school and parents.

But how can I ensure that the file passed to the new school is true and fair?

How does the system actually work?

Can I ask to see a copy of the intended information that they plan to pass on, PRIOR to this meeting . Or do we go to meeting and then they 'make the file'.

Do I have any rights? I really want to get them to agree that nothing will be passed to new school/senco without my agreement first. But I'm not sure I have the right to request that?

Thank you Polter. I knew you would know what to do
I will wait till I get confirmation of his place at secondary.
Then I will contact SENCO and take the matter into my own hands.

And then take a step back. And try to let them, just get on with it.

Do you know the answer to my question? - should I have already seen the preliminary file? when I go to the meeting? or is that too much to ask?

Hi, I would ask them in writing politely to provide you with a copy of all documentation that has been/will be circulated to other professionals attending the meeting as you have not seen any up to date IEP's. You wish to review up to date documents so that you are in the picture to contribute at the meeting.
If they miss out things such as the diagnosis letter then you can circulate this before hand along with any parent views you feel appropriate.
I went through a lot of problems at primary school and in the end gave up communcating with them and concentrated on dealing with secondary transition. I sent in to them my own file, views and reports and had several meetings with them.

Thank you both.

I think in the meantime, dh and I will have to address the IEP issue.

Prior to the transition meeting.

Will have a think how best to resolve this , without making it all even worse.

My DS moved from infant to junior in September and I had no idea what was in his transition file. So I made two packs - one for his CT and one for the SENCO with his DX, recommendations, the most relevant reports and a mind map about how his condition affects his learning. And then I went to see his teacher a couple of weeks in to chat about his settling in and to check she'd read the stuff I'd sent.

One of my friends has made laminated sheets about her DD's SN and how it impacts her/what adjustments she needs. Her DD took a stack of them into her new secondary school and gave one to every teacher she had and she now gives them to every new teacher she has (she's doing GCSEs now). There is then no way at all than any member of staff can say they 'didn't know' about her condition/needs.