Wandsworth: any of you there?

[Roz007]

Thinking of moving but trying to get my ducks in a row: can anyone tell me what Wandsworth is like generally, and also specifically for children with autism?

:-) Roz

Wandsworth does have the fantastic Rainbow school for autism, which uses ABA methods and has a 1-to-1 staff to pupil ratio! I visited it and it is v impressive. BUT, it would of course be a fight to get the LEA to fund a place there (it costs the LEA £50k per annum!), and I have no idea of the quality of any other schooling there. I do have one pal whose asd daughter is in a mainstream autistic unit in Wandsworth but I'm afraid don't know the name

Oh thanks, that's really useful! I'm perhaps amateurishly hopeful my son will stay in mainstream with support: he's not fully diagnosed, but he doesn't seem to be at the far end of the spectrum, which is what I assume would be necessary to get place at a school like that: I'm in the process of deciding whether or not to return from abroad and Wandsworth would seem logical as my other son can only read in French and there is a bilingual school there . . .

I've no personal experience of Wandsworth, but there is some interesting statistical data from last SENDIST annual report:
07-08 Total no of appeals 40
Per 10,000 school population 13.61

06-07 Total no of appeals 30
Per 10,000 school population 10.02

There are no averages over every authority against which to judge these numbers, but they do seem to be at the upper end. There's no explanation as to why. It may be that because an ABA school is sited in Wandsworth, it attracts more appeals.
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