[senco-forum] Why do we take it?

Hi Andy

We take it because it's easier to do that than to argue!  Personally, I find it so time consuming to argue that I've given up bothering.

  Yes, I am better at working out what pupils need to succeed.
  Yes, I am much better at writing the LA's paperwork.
  But there it ends.  I can't control what goes on at the level above me however hard I try so I see my role as the practical one of having to make the provision I have available work for as many pupils as I can.
  And the only time I have won more time for a pupil when the LA said no was when the parents were prepared to fight as well.  

  Keep up the good work.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall
EPY45 at aol.com wrote:
  SENCO forum just seems to have evolved into one long 
'let's-slag-off-schools-and-local-authorities-and-take-them-to-court" tirade all of the time.

Is there any other SENCO in the whole of England who believes that we in 
schools and our colleagues in local authorities have got better at assessing, 
identifying, and meeting the SEN of children and young people over the past ten 
years and are doing a much better job? Or am I the only one?

Andy, SENCO

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall