[senco-forum] Advice needed urgently. Statemented pupil placementat our ...

 These rules are designed to protect everyone, but seem to leave little room for commonsense.  The phrase about effective education of other children surely almost always includes child trying to gain a place at the school.
 I do wonder sometimes, about parents fighting against staff to have their child admitted. If the school is saying that in their professional opinion the school is not able to educate a child then either you agree and go elsewhere or disagree, in which case why do you want your child to go to that school anyway? I suppose one might hope to change heatrs and minds, but I'm not sure I'd want to use my child to do it.

As to ways to argue against admission;
My understanding is that you can refuse a child, with or without a statement if you don't have a place in the year group. This does not necessarily mean the class, but refers to the admission number set for the year.

I have only hearsay evidence of 2 schools who have managed to argue against taking children on other grounds; 
One with a statement of BESD -  the relevant class was housed in the hall and required to move all equipment and furniture to allow the serving of lunch, PE, assembly etc The school argued that this environment would be too disruptive for a child with severe  BESD.  
The other school argued that they could not physically fit another desk in the classroom (and no other class could be accommodated in the room).
Kate
lucy grimme <lucy.grimme at btinternet.com> wrote: In my experience, you cannot refuse this child unless there is a 
threat to the education or health and safety of other children.  we've 
tried, including these issues, and lost the appeal.  Finance and 
resources is not considered an argument to refuse admission.  I'd be 
interested to know if anybody has ever won the argument and which 
county you are in.

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> In a message dated 01/05/2007 18:08:57 GMT Daylight Time,
> c.bailey100 at cobweb.uk.com writes:
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> Hello  everyone, I need you advice as to how best to explain that a 
> requested
> placement at our school for a statemented pupil will be to the 
> detriment of
> the other pupils.
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> Perhaps the question needs to be turned around:
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> What would have to be in place to be able to include this youngster 
> without
> affecting the learning of the other children. Create the theoretical 
> package
> and  if it cannot be put in place it should answer your question.
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> Martin
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