I'm confused....Exceptional Needs Funding and Statement

[Minniethemoocher]

DD's SENCo had told us that we should apply for a Statement and that the school will also be applying for Exceptional Needs Funding.

Are the two related? If the School doesn't get the Exceptional Needs Funding, will that make it harder to obtain a Statement?

Or do we need a Statement before the school can apply for Exceptional Needs Funding?

Finding this all very confusing!!

It varies from place to place! Try the council website - by law, they should have an explanation for all this on there.

How old is dd? When ds2 was under 5 and getting nursery funding the pre-school were given an extra payment on top which sounds like the ENF you've described. I don't know if the system changes when they move to the Reception class of a school and still have nursery funding.

It's unrelated to statementing (if it's the same funding that ds2 had). Ds2 doesn't have a statement, although this may change at some point in the future.

DD is nearly 6; another problem that I have is no written, official diagnosis. She has seen an Ed Psych, who verbally suggested DD has ASD, but didn't mention it in the report; the Paediatrician, again, who told us that she thought that DD has Dyspraxia, AD and ASD, but only put specific learning/developmental difficulties in the report and the OT, who told us that DD has Sensory Processing Disorder.

Without a formal diagnosis, it makes it very difficult to obtain the funding for the one-to-one help that the school agrees DD needs.

I am just so frustrated!!