Do-it-yourself Education Advocacy

Dependent children lead to dependent adults. If you don’t address it who will?

Information within this book will enable you to compile and deliver a case. Be armed and ready for school and local authority meetings, mediation and arbitration hearings.

Topics covered include,

• Considering a placement’s suitability
• Disability, learning and the built environment
• College, work based learning (Apprenticeship) and university
• Tracking development and collecting evidence
• Appropriate support and low vision
• Appropriate support and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• Children and young people without an Education, Health and Care Plan
• Graduated approach
• Setting targets
• Parental contribution to an assessment
• Meeting techniques
• Being assertive
• Managing conflict
• Mediation
• Provision to negotiate
• Letters and addressing the situation, Building a case before appealing to a Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal
• Requesting an Education, Health and Care Plan needs assessment
• A local authority refusing to carry out an Education, Health and Care Plan needs assessment
• A local authority refusing to carry out an Education, Health and Care Plan needs reassessment
• A local authority refusing to issue an Education, Health and Care Plan following assessment
• The description of need not adequately specified in the Education, Health and Care Plan
• Special educational provision not adequately specified in the Education, Health and Care Plan
• A local authority’s professional advices fail to say what provision is required
• A local authority proposes an amendment to elements of an Education, Health and Care Plan
• A decision by a local authority to cease to maintain an Education, Health and Care Plan
• A local authority refusing to name the placement
• Preparing a case to address a disagreement about a placement named in an Education, Health and Care Plan
• What is the minimum a local authority low vision support service should offer?
• Residential provision
• Day or residential placement?
• How to win an independent placement
• Costing a placement
• Case statement and working document
• The role of experts and the content of professional reports
• Presenting a case to a Special Education Needs and Disability Tribunal
• Putting your case