Moondog I can send you my statement if you'd like? Basically, the most important section is 3 - where you should check over every word to make sure there are no hostages to fortune for the future. For instance, mine says that my DS will have "a mix of part time home based ABA and part time mainstream inclusion, with support, as the most suitable education to meet his needs at present, with a graduated pattern of increasing school attendance in line with progress." Then section 4 lays out the school which is chosen. Every word is careful - so that they can't push me into full time school too quickly (..."in line with progress") and so that they can't send him in unaccompanied ("with support"). Section 3 also includes reference to funding, which links to a separate funding statement. Sections 1 and 2 are just verbiage about the child's deficits, but must link to 3 , as the needs outlined in section 2 must be met by the provision outlined in 3. Hope that helps??? They write the first draft, but if you have done enough chatting/influencing upfront to the Ed Psych, whose report seems to pretty much go straight into the statement, you should get a good result. You can suggest a few drafting changes when it is sent to you, but it is difficult to completely rewrite at that stage. I suggest making what look like minimal changes (which however do importantly change the emphasis), then playing them down ("I've just scribbled on here some minor changes, but otherwise it looks fine") and then they are more likely to take your changes on board just to get the thing signed off. Or at least that's how it worked for me. Think of what they might try and take off you in the future, and get it into part 3 (however briefly) as you then have a legal right to everything in 3. Good luck!