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1. Local Authorities who are seeking to delegate their statutory duties as well as funding to schoolsWe are seeing an apparent increase in the efforts of LAs to impose all SEN responsibilities onto schools by denying LAs’ continuing duty to identify children with SEN, assess them and ensure provision under statements. This typically links policy restrictions on access to assessments and statements (e.g. see our work in Lewisham) with the delegation of all SEN funding to school and a failure to monitor whether that funding is actually reaching children with SEN. 2. Childcare proceedings during parents’ exercise of SEN rightsWe have received some reports of parents being threatened with the removal of their child (or actual removal taking place) because the approach those parents have taken towards their child’s education is alleged by their LA to constitute “child abuse”. An example of such “abuse” has been a parental request for special school placement rather than mainstream placement. If you know of any cases in which childcare proceedings have been started because of parental approaches to their child’s education, please contact us. 3. Looked-after childrenIn collaboration with a group of other concerned parties we wish to do all we can to influence the Government’s current focus on improving the appalling outcomes for these children. Specifically we are concerned with the relative lack of access of looked-after children with special educational needs to Tribunals and would like to bring forward a test case or cases. If you know of a looked-after child in the following set of circumstances please contact us:
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