Formal assessments without parental consent

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Just found out SALT carried out a formal assessment at school which I hadn't been made aware of. There was no reason to assess DS and they know I like to be present and kept informed. Can anyone tell me which guidelines state that this isn't good practice? Thanks

I think the only way to prevent this from happening is by sending a formal letter to the school stating that your Ds is not to be assessed by outside proffs without your prior knowledge.

However make sure you are very clear in your letter, I made the request only to find that the school had deliberately misread my letter and interpretted it to mean Ididnt want any professional involvement with my child! The 2 are clearly not the same!

I think ahy guideline will just say it is "best practice" to invite parents or inform them but schools seem to have a knack of wriggling out of "best practice" and into "what suits us practice".

Sorry for being cynical

Thanks Ineed. I've been googling and can't find any actual evidence stipulating it shouldn't be done, just that it is not good practice, I will write to the school. To be honest, the Senco doesn't know what day of the week it is most of the time, so it was not the school that initiated the assessment. I think the Salts are doing it to limit the assessments a private salt can do should I need independent reports done in the next year.

I am fairly certain most assessments can be repeated after 6-12 months anyway.
Shame you are finding the SALTs to be like that! Our NHS ones have been good through primary although I am seriously unimpressed with the secondary school based one who has just observed Dd3 and written a report. She only observed her during a pragmatics group!!! Err so we wont check functional skills then!! Even on a child who has described physical symptoms around being able to express herself eg. "The words get stuck and wont come out!"

Well thats just "fine" then

I am sure your indie salt could come up with some useful assessments that havent been done!

Good luck

Oh and meant to say, I didnt know she was going in and they still have the letter that was so carefully misinterpretted for the last proff that was going in!!

I have lost the will with them now!!

Glad you found you salts to be good at primary. DS is only in yr 1 and has been having salt input for a year. Found out at annual review recently that salts (not school) want to drastically cut provision. The only irony is that every assessment shows 'significant' difficulties. Hope you manage to sort out your dodgy one too!

It's in one of the sencops. I could quote the statement ing route part.

Just seen your post 2boys. Is it in the old Code? I'll have a flick through it - thanks.

Don't worry too much about the SLAT assessment scuppering any future indie SALT assessment as they can do an alternative test to avoid giving false positives.

Just make sure any future salt has a copy of the LA report and take it from there.

I fear it is cost cutting and you will end up with lower SALT input.
Good luck though, and finger crossed for one of those rare and honest LA SALTs who say what the kids really need