loobylou wrote:
Realistically I don't know how possible this is but ..... it would be useful to discuss the system with someone who has experienced it from the other side (ie parents or student).
I don't know about other schools but I would have thought that most schools would say the "right things".
This is absolutely essential! Thanks to this forum I’ve been able to contact those with experience of our nearest grammar options. No idea how I would have managed it otherwise. Our immediate local area has only comps and we have a very active forum for parents of children with SEND - who are a fount of knowledge!
What’s interesting about the school policies is seeing who simply cuts and pasted the SEN COP to “tick the boxes” for legal requirements and which ones actually seem to know what they are talking about. Corporate policy that says “all the right things” is a bit of a red flag for me based on past experience.
Our schools policy looks great - but very few of the things listed are readily accessible. The support on our EHCP still isn’t in place over a year after it was finalised and we are somewhat fobbed off by getting more and more internal school reports which allow them to obfuscate (while collecting significant top up funding). It’s very wearing and I’m keen to find better service at secondary level