after the stuff in the press about secondary schools and lotteries well let me tell you

[2shoes]

it is a lottery and it depends on where you live.
My friend lives in a different part of the county. she has had numerous problems accessing services. whilst I have got them.
Now she has just found out her dd has not got into the secondary department of the school she goes to and will have to be uprooted and go to another school. I am so angry for her. Her dd like mine has cp and is severely disabled. the school the lea want to send her too doesn't even have a full time physio. so years of hard work will be undone.

Oh and in the other part of the county my dd got in to the secondary department no problems. didn't even have to look at another school.

That's awful. I didn't realise that could happen, I've just assumed that ds can stay where he is all the way through as long as his statement says he needs a special school. We've had all the secondary school thing with dd this year and I've been thinking at least I won't have to go through this again.

Is your friend going to appeal? It sounds like she's got good grounds.

That's awful, 2shoes. Like Pixel I'd just presumed that going on to the secondary part of a special school would be automatic (although admittedly I have no experience of how it all works).

pixel Are you in the same area as me.(seem to remeber you are). It is very odd. I come under B&H so have had no problems but west sussex always seems to be bad.
Yes she is already getting advice on appealing and her DH has already started doing letters.
the school she is in is a conductive education school and she has just had her tendons operated on so to go to aschool with no phisio is crazy.

Yes, we're B&H too. We actually gave up a house rental at the last minute even though we could ill afford to lose the deposit because we discovered it was in West sussex and didn't want to take a chance. Ds had just got settled in his fab school and it hadn't been easy for him so...

It's ridiculous really as I could actually see that other house from my window if it wasn't for a row of trees.

Here it is just automatic that the child moves up, it is all one school though.Are the schools in question one school but split(primary secondary) or 2 schools?

Though TBH we don't have the same catchment areas problems here as we live on a penisular and its very limited how far they can make you travel.

primary with a secondry department

Thats awful. Here places are given to special needs first. having said that there's no secondary special needs school for severely physically impaired kids. Once they leave the primary you have to prove they are not cognitvely impaired (the LEA would like to dump them in the school that does learning disabilities. Its not set up for severe physical issues) in order for the LEA to pay for them to be bussed 40 miles away to Stroud where there is a seconday school for severe physical problems.
She needs to appeal because her statement willsay sheneeds physio/special chair/hydrotherapy etc etc and prove that this other school isn't suitable. There's several organisations that can help with an appeal.