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SEN parents to protest at parliament on Friday 27th March

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sunshine175 · 23/03/2015 22:17

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sunshine175 · 23/03/2015 22:21

I don't think I can go but I wish I could go and join them. So I hope you don't mind me sharing here as I wanted as many people to know about it as possible.

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sunshine175 · 23/03/2015 22:31

And if you can't go please sign the petition to ask for more legal safeguards as children are losing their support when changing to EHC Plans from Statements

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2boysnamedR · 23/03/2015 23:05

I would love to go, unfortunately it's down to childcare :0(

senvet · 23/03/2015 23:15

Signed

zen1 · 24/03/2015 19:10

I'm going to try and go. Thanks for posting about it.

Icimoi · 25/03/2015 16:46

I'm all for demonstrating about the whole sorry mess, but I'm not sure this demonstration is targeting the right thing. They say they want it to be made illegal for provision to be removed from a statement when transferring to an EHCP, unless that removal is supported by professionals. In principle that's absolutely right, but what do they mean by professionals? If they mean people like LA EPs, or schools, it is going to be child's play for LAs to get the required professional opinion.

I think it would be more productive to demonstrate in favour of making the law much easier to enforce, e.g. so that LAs would be penalised if they don't comply with time limits for the EHCP process, or they don't produce detailed and specific provision in section F, or if they fail to make it available - i.e. so that it is not left solely up to parents to enforce their children's entitlement.

uggerthebugger · 25/03/2015 18:19

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This. It's the right protest about the wrong issue. Far better to demonstrate about the wider culture of unlawful LA behaviour than a narrow protest about a loophole that doesn't really exist.

The DfE put out a framework for SEND accountability today. It is fucking woeful.

2boysnamedR · 25/03/2015 18:34

All we can do is individually fight our case then make sure our story is told. It's pretty hard when your in the thick of it.

My friend is pushing me to go to press, I can't till it's over. But I plan to. Parents don't know their rights. We are lucky as we have group power with mnsn. A lot of parents have no knowledge of Sossen ipsea or even that their child counts in this sorry mess.

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