At last week's IEP meeting, school asked if dp and I will pick up ds from school at 2pm as he now needs supervision at lunchtime and his statement has only 25 hours support. DS, dx ASD, has been hitting children and adult. This has been going on for 6 months. We refused. School called for emergency annual review to increase funded hours as final statement has not been issued yet.
At meeting yesterday, school stated that they believe they are the best place for ds. A picture emerged of a thriving child with only the usual ASD problems which school is handling well and in his best interest. In Part 2 of the revised proposed statement local authority officer was writing yesterday, nowhere is it mentioned on the statement of his shouting and hitting, of the 2 exlusions (possibly illegal as they have now changed tack and are trying other methods of dealing with hitting and they admitted how difficult it is to make a case for excluding a sn child). Nor is there any mention of their asking us at the end of last term to take him home early on Thursdays. They are not even going to mention asking us to take him home early everyday till some indeterminate time.
At the meeting yesterday, dp told local authority officer there was no point in writing Part 3 of statement (the special education provisions) until they send us Part 2 (the special education provisions) correct. I feel that this might take a very long time and think maybe we should just ask for the whole thing, tell them what we object to and then appeal the decision. (We want to ask for an ASD unit.)
What would you do? Anyone been through similar situation?