[senco-forum] Special school placement

Help please! I am an infant school Senco. We have a child

Give them (the parents) contact details for some of the
relevant organisations on the following page:

http://www.aylesburyvale-sec.bucks.sch.uk/links/parent.htm

(especially IPSEA)

Hope this helps

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tara Riddle" <tjr29 at hotmail.com>
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senco-forum] Special school placement
Date: 01-Feb-2007 14:57:33 GMT

> Help please! I am an infant school Senco. We have a child
> with complex needs  who is due to transfer to KS2 in
> September. Our local junior school would be  highly
> inappropriate for him.
> 
> After careful discussion at his annual review in May 2006,
> his parents  agreed to consider an MLD school. I took them
> to visit 2 such schools,  equi-distant from home - they
> disliked one, and loved the second. They named  the second
> on their parental response form for transition. The LEA
> have decided that he cannot have a place at their
> preferred school,  but could go to the one they dislike.
> They are pretty angry.
> 
> An LEA official have told the parents that there is no
> point going to a  tribunal, as the LEA has offered them a
> MLD place -"it does not count that  their preference is
> the other school. They've been offered an MLD place to 
> meet his needs."
> 
> Another piece of advice they received - from Parent
> Partnership - was that  if we held an immediate 'annual'
> review, they could request their preferred  school be
> named on the Statement, and then the LEA would have to
> comply.
> 
> I have spoken to an independent SEN support group, who
> advised that the LEA  official is wrong - parents CAN
> specify the name of a Special School. Also  that an
> amended Statement can not change from mainstream to
> special without  LEA agreement.
> 
> Tomorrow I am taking the parents - with the child this
> time - to visit the  school they dislike, hoping they may
> change their minds! I have previously  sent children to
> both schools, and I have heard great things from them, but
> obviously parents want to feel it is right for their
> child.
> 
> Please can anyone advise me on what rights the parents
> have? What can I do  next to help them?
> 
> Tara
> 
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