SEND Transport Consultation (part 4)
- By The Difficult Parent
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- 05 Jan, 2020
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Yes, you probably missed parts 1 to 3 (we all did)
Background
Haringey will be running a SEND Transport consultation meeting on Wednesday 5th February 2020 in response to a decision made at the council meeting on Tuesday 10th December 2019, when a decision called “Award of Contract for the provision of SEND Transport Transformation Consultancy Services” was postponed to allow for further due diligence – including consultation with parents.
This is the 4th part of an ongoing consultation on SEND Transport which we have been told by Haringey has already comprised of:
1 A review of feedback from the Local Offer event and
Fairness Commission events
2 A review of complaints and complaints patterns;
feedback in SEND reforms meetings and Co-production meetings; a review of blogs
3 A consultation involving 50 parents from 2 special
schools in Haringey
In preparation for the planning of this consultation the Difficult Parent has been doing some background reading into consultations and has found a checklist for consultations from the Local Government Association. So, we have meandered through the checklist, using the LGA’s ‘New conversations guide’ as well as other local and national documents referenced at the end of this blog.
In preparation for the planning of this consultation the Difficult Parent has been doing some background reading into consultations and has found a checklist for consultations from the Local Government Association. So, we have meandered through the checklist, using the LGA’s ‘New conversations guide’ as well as other local and national documents referenced at the end of this blog.
The Local Government Association's Consultation Checklist
This is a light touch review of the process so far against the local government association’s consultation checklist, with additional references to the government's consultation guidance and Haringey’s consultation charter
What follows is a quick overview of the typical stages of a consultation and the things the LGA say you should keep in mind when conducting a consultation.
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?
