Moving experience

[Arabica]

We are about to put our flat on the market in the hope of raising enough cash to buy a house in Waltham Forest which is a bit better value than our beleoved Hackney.

DD is a prolific user of services at our local child development centre (paed, vision clinic, audiology, OT, SALT, physio, dietitian, plus the orthotics clnic) so how do we ensure that there is a smooth transfer to new team in new borough? And how about statements (she has f/t help): do LAs tend to respect each others' assessments or will she have to be reassessed by their inclusion team?

We haven't chosen a school yet for her as we don't exactly know where within WF we are going to find Arabica Mansion.

Any hints and tips gratefully received. Luckily have just had assessment with paed who has helpfully set out what all her issues are in report.

No advice on moving but I've heard very good things about Whitefield School in WF. It wasn't suitable for DS's particular SEN but it has very good resources and training.

Ok i not long since moved have found and slightly differnt as mine was not planned move happened fast but feel free to learn from what I should had done

1)Make sure your gp gives you summary of dc notes for you to hand over yourself as medical notes takes months to get there.Paeds as well

2)ask your current paed to do hand over to paed in the area , ditto every other service you use and make sure each section writes a basic summary that you can give to new ones.Then chase old and new ones to make sure its done and that your in the system

I now had to go right back to beginning and get referals from gp to community paed who then hopefully will ssee us and get ds servies all restarted but had to get hv to do as gp refused till notes arrive some time like 3 months after us!!!
And we have a neuro who has waded in on ds behalf and yet we still got to wait till least end of MAy be seen by community paed then long lists for services,

Statements ds has ft one and new lea have to honour it at first but can put dc in a temporary placement till something suitable comes up mind they forced into finding ds a tutor temporary while we sort out approiate school placement
but can bet your eggs they will bring forward review ds has one in January under Essex \herts now doing another one

Check out schools prior to your move ss if thats what you want also ms either if its your choice or just so you can present arguments when lea try pushing you towards

I beaten Lea to it and i know where want ds going and been able say why local ms not suitable hence why tutor till goes to panel and Dont be afraid to let new Lea know your capable playing hardball from the start!!!

Also look into sn clubs activties often waiting lists so make contact before you move in

Any questions feel free to ask

Thanks for the useful advice. I am going to wait until we have had a firm offer for our place and then start requesting summary of DD's needs for new area's services.

Like Phoenix says, make up a list, and get summaries of needs.

We moved 100 miles when dd2 was 18 months, I made a long list of every professional and asked each one to contact their counterpart in the new county, then I made contact myself and arranged appts where necessary.

I also hand-carried medical notes to the new docs.

You might have problems taking equipment - our GP threatened the Council telling them he'd send me to the papers with my story if they wouldn't let me take our special seating with us. I knew we'd have a 6 month wait for new seating assessment.

Best of luck with the move...