we are doing it ourselves with a bit of help from the NAS - just finding it now we are quite a way into it just completely overwhelming and taking over my life. My tribunal is in february and already im dreading christmas as i know i am going to be worrying so much about it.
everyone tells me the case is clear cut - current school cannot meet his needs, they are even attending as our witness but its starting to get quite nasty with the LA. they have finally agreed to consult school - 2 special schools and a god awful one which we removed our son from 18 months ago! i think that is just plain spiteful of them as they know we would never place him back there. he has been off school for the last 2 days as his anxiety has been too much for him - school phoned on thursday and asked me to take him home. he is only in school part time so have the stress of that, plus an elder autistic son who is in a special school but doesnt get transport so have to transport him to and back every day and then another daughter.
i have asked the LA for information re autism outreach which they refused to answer so asked them again and gave thema deadline of yesterday - no response. sent a letter to the NHS asking for info re OT , deadline yesterday - no response, awaiting report from our ed psych which is due any day now so worried about that, what will it say, will it be good enough etc. waiting to see what the LA are going to do next, will they send their ed psych to see him, LA trying to get me to agree to him staying longer at school even though we have a sick note for him, i just feel my whole life has been taken over by this and i am not even asking for the world. the only person who really is suffering is my 9 year old son. i get frustrated at DH as he is not really involved - its all on my shoulders although he does try his best and has been happy so far to write the cheques but now need to break it to him that in Jan our OT going in to do an update report which we will of course have to pay for.
thanks for reading so far - i remember reading a thread before warning about ho wtribunal will take over your life and my god they were so right
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