[senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service

Dear Brian,

Mary - none of us would deny that all children are equally deserving of EP
advice.  But even if it's good news, it's certainly not unqualified good 
news.  The
resource is being spread more thinly.

It would seem unlikely that independent sector pupils have previously had
less access to EP services, but presumably it's been from independent EPs. 
You were eating something before, I'll wager.  But accessing an Local 
Authority EP Service would doubtless be more...cost effective.

The only thing wrong with the 'let them eat cake' reference (which I suspect 
Brian will like)...how do I put this sensitively, without political 
incorrectness....is that the historical version had this being suggested 
for, rather than by, the less well off.

(I still think your kids as just as deserving of high quality support.)

Regards

Biff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Kelly" <mary.kelly4 at ntlworld.com>
To: "'brian hepburn'" <hepburnbrian at hotmail.com>; "'Jane Scaysbrook'"
<j.scaysbrook at ntlworld.com>
Cc: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service

> Dear Brian,
>
> I have counted very slowly to ten and still I cannot let this go. Are our
> parents and our children somehow lesser mortals than those in maintained
> schools?  Do maintained schools not have to buy EPS services from their
> devolved funding? Is it not unqualified good news for the autistic,
> dyslexic
> and SLI children in my school, that we can now access the same level of
> advice that their peers in maintained schools can access?
>
> Or will you tell us to eat cake?
>
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of brian hepburn
> Sent: 06 April 2008 19:57
> To: Jane Scaysbrook
> Cc: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service
>
>
>>> > are you funny or nasty, can't decide?
>
> Ah, I haven't lost it then.
>
> As for this thread....
>
> I have no idea of the details of the Service Level Agreement and therefore
> didn't want to comment too hysterically. However, I am shocked that, on
> the
> surface, a LA EPS is selling itself to the independent sector and
> therefore
> depriving the children and families of its service.
>
> Every child, every parent, every SENCO in a maintained school or employee
> of
> an LA should be heading to the barricades right about now, I'd have
> thought.
> Sorry, you can't have your EP today, she is busy earning cash at an
> independent school.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brian hepburn"
> <hepburnbrian at hotmail.com>> To: <> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:10 PM>
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service> > > > > We
> have
> just successfully negotiated an arrangement with our local EP> > > service
> so that I can have access to advice by email and telephone, and > > one>
> half-day visit per term. This is brand new to me (and to the LA) > >
> because
> we> are an independent school.>> > Go on, Martin. Justify this.> >
> Wouldn't
> you love to know the costings? I bet the PEP has got a new carpet > for
> his
> office and the staff Xmas party is paid for.> > Brain>
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