www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/07/18/parliamentary-debate-on-autism-and-education-just-11-mps/
Says it all really!
I have a ds who has High functioning autism. He is not failing academically and not disruptive. I have spent over £1600 on reports to prove how much support he needs but school won't do anything because;
A) they don't take private reports (not ones that mean they have to spend money anyway)
B) they won't commission borough reports because they have no money and no proof of enough need (it's in the fucking reports that you refuse to use!)
The only way to get him the support that every other person agrees he needs is to go for an EHC and spend thousands more.
Even if we did all the legal stuff ourselves, fuck knows how, we could easily end up needing three sets of reports as the process can take 2 years and reports are only valid for 6 months, never mind the cost of the experts at tribunal.
And, as is amply demonstrated by 11 MPs turning up at the debate, the government don't give a fuck!
There must be a campaign in there somewhere.
(Sorry for the language, can you tell I'm a bit stressed?)
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Can't mumsnet do a campaign? 11 MPs at autism and education debate
Mercythompson · 28/07/2014 16:17
It's a joke, isn't it?
I have 2 dc on the spectrum - one ith severe ASD and one with HFA/AS. I wish I could say it was easy to get either of the support, but even with dd1 it took 3 years of arguing and providing the support ourselves (plus a home programme and private reports, of course!) to get her a statement worth the paper it was written on. With dd2, I'm in the same position as you - school say nothing to report, yet dd2 comes home stressed and isn't achieving what she should. We had to get a private report to even get the school to take notice of what we were saying. Now it seems they have simply lowered their expectations for her to nicely average, so they don't have to provide support as she can tick along nicely at that level 
And then, as you say, no one actually gives a toss. It's sickening.
I just wrote to my MP.
when I see such news I know nothing will ever change for us because obviously nobody gives a fuck. It is such a disgrace
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