Hi all - just wondering if any of you could offer any help/advice
My son who is 4 who is diagnosed with autism and has a diagnosis of “disorder of intellectual development” is due to start reception this September 25.
He already has an EHCP in place, and since January the LA have been consulting specialist schools, there has been a school which have responded with a positive response and said they can take my son this year.
They offered my son this place on the 11th Feb, but the LA said that this would need to go to panel to be approved first and would take around 2-3 weeks, we are now 5 weeks in and still no decision as been made and I’ve had updates as to what’s going on they just keep saying discussions are ongoing.
I have made a complaint to the head of children’s services and I am awaiting a response, I am just so worried that the LA will decline? Even though I have in writing that he has been identified as a child who needs a specialist setting, it is a state specialist school it’s not independent.
I suppose my question is, what are the chances of panel declining this?