Haringey SEND strategy: big on patronising cartoons cartoons but not much detail to scrutinise
- By Brian Leveson
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- 08 Aug, 2021
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Having attended 2 meetings run by Haringey SEND department I came away with one questions: What's a SEND strategy?
Upcoming meetings about the SEND Stragegy
There are two meetings hosted by SENDIASS at Markfield online about the new Haringey SEND strategy
From Haringey SEND strategy
We at Haringey are working hard to create and develop our new Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) strategy over the next 2 years. However, while the strategy is being developed, we are continuing to deliver against our previous priorities alongside improved services and recovery from COVID-19.
Upcoming drop-in events
Join one of our upcoming drop-in online events for more information on how we are going about developing our new SEND strategy and how you can get involved:
- Monday 9 August 2021, 12 noon - 1.30pm - Join our first event online
- Wednesday 11 August 2021, 5 - 6.30pm - Join our second event online
No details please, there parents
When councillors are asked to make decisions that will impact services users for years to come, they get report packs that amount to 100's if not 100's of pages. Parent carers get cartoons.
So, what is a SEND Strategy?
You can view the current Haringey SEND strategy online via this link
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/send_strategy_haringey_2017-19_final_feb_2019....
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/send_strategy_haringey_2017-19_final_feb_2019....
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?
