FIVE things OFSTED say about the experiences of parent carers in their 2018/19 report
- By The Difficult Parent
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- 18 Feb, 2020
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Comments about parent carers from The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2018/19
1. Pressured to accept off rolling
Parents
are pressured to accept off-rolling through elective home education and many
teachers think that parents need more support, especially those with the least
understanding of their children’s rights and/or who speak English as an
additional language
2. Significant fractures
Too
often, parents encounter significant fractures statutory arrangements such as
EHC assessment and planning, even in areas that seem to be in working well
3. The prosecution of parents
Inspectors
discuss what the school does to support pupils to either continue at the school
or to find a place in other schools. Where this had broken down, we found a
variety of reasons. In some cases, parents had removed their child from school
because they were unable to resolve problems with the school. In other cases,
when the school had instigated formal procedures to fine or prosecute the
parents for their child’s poor attendance, parents had decided to home-educate
their child rather than work with the school to improve the child’s attendance.
In other cases, parents felt that their child’s particular needs were not being
met and removed them from the roll to another school or to home education
4. Not being valued in coproduction
Parents
and carers have a mixed experience of co-production. Too many say that their
views and experiences are neither heard nor valued.
5. What good looks like
In
providers judged good or outstanding this year for their high-needs provision,
we found common themes [ONE OF WHICH WAS THAT] Providers work effectively
with parents, carers, the LA, and health and educational professionals.
If you thought SEND was bad - the NHS is seemingly prepared to throw away money to private companies
About 3 or 4 times a year we get the euphemistic message 'Parents please note we have put a letter in your child's bag' - its a world away from how a child's death was handled in my child's first school
More of a trial by ordeal than a well organised clearly set out administrative process for moving the care of vulnerable young adults from Haringey's Children's Services to Adult Services. We have been failed at every stage of the process.
Never EVER get on the bus without a camera running if you need the priority wheelchair space
The reality of using a London Bus in the teeming rain on a Sunday afternoon is no joke when the parents of a paraplegic person in a wheelchair clash with the self-entitled buggy-pushing parents of toddlers.
At 3pm today I received some barefaced lies from Haringey Council Adult Social Care in response to a photograph I published online yesterday and the media interest it generated
Haringey SEND Transport are insisting that a 17 year old minibus with no air conditioning is a suitable vehicle to transport my paraplegic son in this heatwave. The appalling conditions inside the minibus inside the bus is something they knew about last summer, yet they have to date done nothing whatsoever provide a suitable minibus this year nor appropriately mitigate the temperatures inside the minibus.The conditions inside the minibus are so bad that they triggered multiple seizures during the heatwave as my son has epilepsy, which they SEND transport department know about and they also know that they are triggered by heat.It is not just son who is impacted: last year we know of one child who died on Haringey SEND Transport in the summer heatwave and another who had seizures.
I am simply asking a question - are we all absolutely certain that the road closure / travel restrictions (commonly know as LTNs) placed on some of the most severely disabled people who are wholly reliant on cars are absolutely necessary
Haringey's road closures exemptions policy for disabled people is not fit for purpose, unduly burdensome and intrusive - it's time to stand up against the pro-LTN lycra-clad cycling bullies
Is the argument for and against exemptions for disabled people in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods really a case of GOOD versus EVIL?
