Haringey SEN travel Survey
- By Brian Leveson
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- 07 Jul, 2020
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This survey ran from the beginning of February 2020 to the end of March 2020. There were a total of 33 respondents. Not everyone answered all the questions.
5 THINGS TO TAKE AWAY ABOUT SEN TRAVEL IN HARINGEY
Parent's find the process of obtaining SEN Travel a barrier and lacking transparency
The annual application form was a barrier to a service families had already been assessed as needing - but how many lost their assessed provision because of this? And how will this injustice be rectified?
The style and nature of communication needs to be improved - some suggest that this can only be done through personnel changes
"Travel arrangements”, in relation to an eligible child, are travel arrangements of any description and include—(a)arrangements for the provision of transport, and(b)any of the following arrangements only if they are made with the consent of a parent of the child - Education Act 1996, Section 508B
Unsuitable SEN Travel arrangements inhibit learning: Paragraph 35 of the Home to school travel and transport guidance states: For [SEN Travel] arrangements to be suitable, they must also be safe and reasonably stress free, to enable the child to arrive at school ready for a day of study.
Poor SEN travel arrangement have far reaching impacts on a families health and wealth - Haringey Borough Plan 2019 - 2023 Priority 2: People, pledges that All adults are able to live healthy and fulfilling lives, with dignity, staying active and connected in their communities
Parents feel dumped on by an unaccountable SEND department
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?
