SEN tribunal looming

[KS0589]

Hi All

First time post but I have been using and benefiting on the advice from these forums for years.

Anyway we have a EHCP tribunal coming up in a few weeks as we are appealing to have ABA included on it.

Some back ground, DD is 4 and half (non verbal) and in a mainstream school, we have been privately funding ABA at home for a year now and have seen some great progress so are now pushing to get this in school. We have a legal advocate representing us and have had independent EP assessments and an ABA assessment and progress report from our BCBA consultant.

I think we are well prepared and the EP report strongly recommends ABA after assessing daughter in school and at home in an ABA session, infact the report is quite damning of what they saw in school, interms of learning

so im on here for some last minute advice / tips

Some keypoints so far:

• LA haven't submitted any evidence before deadline
• LA did not send appeal response to us as parents or to our rep, we had to chase it up with court and LA sent a word version of it a week later with apologies
• LA have not sent us the bundle yet, it is past deadline so rep is contacting tribunal to see if they have received it and we have just been missed (again)
• LA EP has not assessed or even met our daughter in person and her last report for the plan was done a while back based on discussions with parents and pre-school (at that time). No further assessment or report has been done for this tribunal (so far) although the LA EP is called as a witness by them

Just feels so frustrating that we have gone to so much effort and cost yet seems LA are dragging their heels and seem like they are doing nothing.

That's brilliant, well done!

The decision should have had something with it showing how long the LA has to comply with the order - I think it's 5 weeks to send you an amended Plan; obviously they don't have to take that long, but some LAs like to string it out to the last minute. It might be an idea to contact the original case officer or, failing them, the head of department, to suggest that the first week after half term would be a good time to start at the new school.

Congratulations! So happy for you - but sad you had to go through all that (and what a waste of public resources! But I guess the LA do not care what it costs the court system...)

Thanks all , it has been extremely stressful and financially very difficult to get to this point but we have the outcome we wanted and will be life changing for our child.

I really hope the LA work with us now and implement the support ASAP rather than continuing to create obstacles.

Congratulations but it is disgraceful that you had to go through all that to get what your child needs.

Brilliant!!! That sense of relief is so overwhelming.

And it looks like we could be heading back to Tribunal...

I was wondering how did ur tribunal go?

Hi can I ask what are EP,SALT,OT that you have used for getting the report please.looking forward to hear from you.

Many Thanks

@KP19078

EP - Educational Psychologist

SALT - Speech & Language Therapist

OT - Occupational Therapist

Really you are better starting your own thread rather than resurrecting old ones.