Daughters behaviour outside

[RedCandyApple]

I can’t take my daughter out of the house anymore, I can’t manage her behaviour outside and I’m on my own with her (lone parent) Friday she ran into the road, ran off and started bashing on a strangers door and screaming, she has severe behavioural problems and I can’t manage them anymore, she is 10, she is too strong for me she’s the size of an adult. I haven’t taken her to school today as I am unable to safely take her out, school said she doesn’t qualify for transport. I don’t even go out on the weekends we spend all the time indoors unless it’s for school which I am not managing anymore either. What can I do?

Don’t listen to the school tell you DD doesn’t qualify for transport. Ask the LA and if you are refused contact SENTAS.

Does DD have an EHCP?

Have you had social care assessments? A carer’s assessment for you and an assessment via the disabled children's team for DD?

Has DD had an OT assessment?

Yes she has a ehcp but I’m told we need to be 2 miles from the school to qualify for transport but we are only 1 mile but I can’t walk it because she point blank refuses to walk, she will lie on the floor we have to get the bus otherwise she won’t go, I have to get the bus by my house and go all the way round as she refuses to go to the other bus stop on the main road which is quicker
To the school, but she refuses to walk there. so we have to take the long way round. It takes me 20 mins to get her home from the bus stop because she refuses to walk she’s now refusing to go to the bus stop near our house as she doesn’t like a house next to the bus stop because it has a poppy in the window so she’s making us get off the stop after our one and walking round the back of the estate, but then she just finds another problem. Really she kicks off over everything, she doesn’t like the library opposite Our house so she won’t walk that way anymore, any solution I find she creates another problem. Even when I do manage to get her to the school gate she runs off down the road and refuses to go into the school (school have witnessed this and it takes several members of staff to get her into school) on her recent school trip they took her out with 3 members of staff just for her, on Friday she told me she wanted to go to her friends house (she has no friends) so she kept screaming at me that she was going to her friends house, I told her she couldn’t so she ran into the road and that’s when she started bashing on the strangers door, she doesn’t understand why she can’t knock on strangers doors to “make friends” I then had to force her home as she was lying across the floor screaming. We have no other involvement from Any services

In my area you can get transport for safety issues if a child cant walk safely even under 2 miles.

If DD cannot reasonably be expected to walk to school due to her disability the statutory walking distance does not apply. See here. If you are refused SENTAS specialise in helping with transport appeals.

Have you asked for an early review?