Help along the road please..... (statementing process)

[sparklymieow]

I posted a request for the LEA to assess DD1 on thursday and recieved a big book today to help me with the process, I have to fill in a personal detail form and give a brief outline, and then write a letter about DD1 and and her problems.. I also have to gather infomation... what do they need??
TIA

bump

Send them as much as you possibly can....medical reports etc...your parental evidence is IMO the most important part of the statementing process beacuse you know and understand your childs needs more than any one else.
Have they sent you a guideline as to what to include in the parental evidence? If not you can get one from your local parent partnership.

yes, its HUGE!!!....... do you think they do this to put you off??

I sat and complted all my parental evidence....sent in a 47 page EP report which we had been able to have done independantly....my witterings were edited several times and I stiil sent in 27 pages of J's strengths and weaknesses and listed all of the areas where we knew he needed help in school for both educational and emotional needs.

Im sure as hell is hot that the LEA's do this to put you off....but dont be...attack it in small sections and complete a small part each day....you will get there in the end!!!!
Good Luck.xx

I only have two weeks to get in the infomation tho.. [ggrrrrr]

Send any reports you have. We were told to keep our parental evidence quite short(less than 2 sides A4] as in my LEA they have a limited time to read each request. Might be an idea to call your LEA and check this before you get writing.

Agree, send in reports and keep yours as short and to the point as possible.

Bit late here but I would say - tell them everything - use the stuff from the parent partnership and follow their headings - if you haven't got the stuff from the parent partnership office then download the document available here
[it can be read in Adobe Acrobat - available free from here ] from the teachernet site - pages 4/5 are great for helping to make sure you've covered everything.

The main thing that you need to do is to make sure that whatever you write you make sure you hammer home how it affects his education - this is an assessment for educational needs and that's what they will be looking for - that's where we fell down first time round.

Good Luck

Sparkly - I don't know if you live in a surestart area - we do, and our surestart person helped us by looking over our school appeal, and giving us some info.