LA refusing to make provision in Section F specific? What do I do now?

[pannetone]

I've started a new thread because I set out my EHCP woes on this thread which was bedelia's thread.

So _ the LA are refusing to budge and put back in the draft EHCP that DD should have 12 SALT sessions a year and are proceeding with the final draft issued last week which merely says 'direct sessions with the therapist per year' which doesn't make sense.

I've quoted the law at the LA that it is their duty to get a SALT report to inform provision in the EHCP but they just keep repeating that the school should have got the report.

LA caseworker says they will wait til DD goes to secondary in Sep and then get a report and amend the EHCP. Which fails to make any specific provision for the transition work DD will need before she goes there .

I have asked for a meeting with the LA before they finalise the draft. Is there anything I can do or will I have to let the LA finalise and then appeal?

Thanks Gruntled.

I had been hoping the LA (particularly now I have got to the Director of SEN Ops) would see sense and re-insert the 12 SALT sessions back into the draft EHCP. Dealing with my LA is like dealing with a parallel universe where laws and codes of practice don't apply and they run their own version of SEN provision.

I haven't contacted the DfE yet but it is next on the to-do list. I now have 2 ridiculous responses from the Director to send.