{"id":37106,"date":"2018-11-01T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=37106"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:52:44","slug":"send-in-the-city-when-school-accounts-dont-match-the-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/send-in-the-city-when-school-accounts-dont-match-the-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Send in the City – When School Accounts Don’t Match The Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One hour after arriving at school and half an hour after her class has gone in. We are still sitting outside the school on 01 October at 09.12am with no help and no ‘provision’ to get inside despite school EHC contributions saying otherwise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Send in the City by Jen Smith<\/strong>
\nNavigating the Special Education Needs and Disability (Send) provision in Bristol one disaster at a time<\/em><\/p>\n

EHCP Bristol Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EHCP process is a long, slow, infuriating one, but what it does show up along the way is the lack of integrity and honesty from services that should be supporting the children involved.<\/p>\n

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You often find children with Send chewing holes in their clothes. That’s what’s happened here.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Wednesday 24 October, I sent an email of complaint to the headteacher of my daughter’s school. My child has been unhappy in school for a while due to perceived bullying and the stress her dyslexia causes her. One of her job-share class teacher’s ideas to resolve this situation was to try to tell us find another school.<\/p>\n

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Another day, another attempt to get to school. You can see the pain of school all over her face<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My eight-year-old did not attend school on Wednesday 24 October. She was so terrified of going, she barricaded herself under the table in her bedroom<\/p>\n

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‘If I die, everything will be fine’. A message my 8 year old wrote to me regarding the stress of school<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the point of emailing this complaint, the school had not sent their contribution to the EHC Needs Assessment to Bristol City Council. The council received it by the deadline and today sent me a copy. What a telling contribution it was. Send parents are so often vilified for being difficult. But when you are desperately trying to get support put in place at school to then read lies written in an official document stating that ‘provision is put in place’ is a staggering moment.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday 07 June 2018 at 15.36. The stress of dealing with the school day<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Provision is not put in place to help my child get into school in the morning. I have begged for provision. If provision is leaving a child sat outside of school screaming for an hour in terror and then going home, that is excellent provision because that is exactly what is happening.<\/p>\n

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I think we spent about half an hour directly outside of school on this day<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s disconcerting to receive a report from the headteacher during the half term holiday this week which talks about my child’s vocabulary needing to improve, yet reading in the EHC contribution that she has ‘good vocabulary both written and verbal’. School cannot have it both ways. It’s either of concern or it’s good, but two conflicting statements in one week is not on.<\/p>\n

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Barricaded under the table at 8.25am on Wednesday 24 October. Refusing to move due to school stress<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spelling is a long-term personal outcome, yet the word dyslexia is not used. Spelling, is something she is expected to ‘work hard’ at to make the ‘expected level for year 4’. But how hard are dyslexic children expected to work over and above their peers? To the point she is hiding under at table at 8.30am in the morning armed with a box of pens to avoid coming to school?<\/p>\n