The Department for Education (DfE), has reminded schools of the dates by which they must submit their exclusion data. But the data
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I’ve said this before meeting minimum standards doesn’t preclude EHCP. Case law: UT ordered EHCP when child exceeding academic expectations. Screen shot from my book SEN & EHCP:
Call from Ed Psych today who told me she sits on EHCP panel & that it's highly unlikely they'll grant my son an EHCP as he is keeping up with minimum academic expectations. And that his social, emotional & communication needs should be met within current school 😭
#Autism #SEN
Seems like a prima facile case of breach of s.175 Education Act 2002 duties on safeguarding and welfare.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/175
School appear to be very defensive. 5 yr old keeps coming home with injuries & I’ve not been informed, so I’m pointing it out to them that he’s hurt himself at school before I take him home. I know how this story goes. Injury at school, unnoticed, not reported to me 👇🏻
A few brief comments on the @LGAcomms ‘s ‘Agreeing to disagree?
Research into arrangements for avoiding disagreements and resolving disputes in the SEND system in England’
Yes it whitewashes chronic LA failures. Any system where the LA loses 96% can only mean systematic and 1
Catch me speak at @snapcharity (Brentwood, Essex) this Wednesday 2 March on #SEN & #EHCP law - how to use the law to obtain your rights in the face of refusal.
Start: 11:00
Copies of my book EHCP & SEN: Know the law. Use the law will be available for purchase on the day @ £20.
Correct. I’m never interested in funding formulae. If it’s in section F, LA must secure it. Period. This duty is ‘absolute and non-delegable’ see [2021] EWHC 281 (Admin) at [70]
#EHCP
#SENDCos & HTs: please remember that in law LA MUST fund 100% of all costs of all #SEND provision,with no exceptions - law overrides local practice.
AND this has nothing at all 2 do w/formula that @educationgovuk uses 2 fund LAs.
It has everything 2 do w/how they spend funding!
The Upper Tribunal provides guidance on naming multiple schools in an EHCP section I.
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