Debs40 - Can you answer a question? - or anyone else that might know a bit about law.

[DelsParadiseWife]

Tis Starlight! (not that you wouldn't answer otherwise, but just so you know history etc. that is if you remember the details of the lives of the people in your computer)

Can you tell me the difference between 'withdrawn' and 'conceded' in the stats by SENDIST?

They say that 'conceded' means it doesn't go to hearing, but surely they would be called withdrawn then!?

Many thanks. Open to anyone else who might know of course!

me neither. Too paranoid now to put my email address up here. What a sad state of affairs eh? Am on TTR though if you ever get around to joining.

Tis the battle of my life I can tell you, and I intend to get good at it. I think I may now know what evil looks like, not in any one person but you know what I mean. I don't think that is too strong a term. I see it in the battles of others on here too.

What gets me down, on my bad days, is looking into the future and seeing endless battles with "the Authorities" just to get the provision and opportunities that NT children get as a given and it makes me sad, angry and a little bit afraid at what all this is doing to me, as a person.

How do I join TTR? As I seem to do a fair bit of ranting at the damn unfairness of this rotten SEN system.

I am also bitterly disappointed that the Lamb inquiry and subsequent report has done nothing, in my case, to help at all.

Sorry, totally off-topic!

'What gets me down, on my bad days, is looking into the future and seeing endless battles with "the Authorities" just to get the provision and opportunities that NT children get as a given and it makes me sad, angry and a little bit afraid at what all this is doing to me, as a person.'

I like to see it a bit like learning to drive. It is bloody scary, and all brain consuming when you start, but after that it comes naturally. Sometimes with challenges, such as stop-start traffic or blizzards but you still get where you are intending to go and you get better at it with practice.

'How do I join TTR?'

Dunno. Think you need 2shoes. Don't think people are generally turned away if you ask.