{"id":37633,"date":"2019-01-12T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=37633"},"modified":"2019-01-12T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:24:54","slug":"bristol-send-problems-no-ed-psych-assess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/bristol-send-problems-no-ed-psych-assess\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Send Problems No Ed Psych Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristol Send Problems Ed Psych:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Educational psychologists in England are concerned that children and young people are not getting access to their services. Those most at risk were said to be those out of school or living in poverty.<\/p>\n

The news, which comes from a survey carried out by the\u00a0British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP), comes as a surprise to no parent who ever requested an ed psych assessment for their struggling child.<\/p>\n

A 57 ed psychs from 29 local authorities in England took part in the survey with the results presented at the DECP annual conference which took place in Bath this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study adds to the growing evidence that many vulnerable children and young people are struggling to access the services they need,”\u00a0Sarb Bajwa, Chief Executive of the BPS, said.<\/p>\n

“It is unacceptable that thousands of children and young people who need help cannot access it. Failure to help with mental health problems at this stage can lead more serious problems developing.”<\/p>\n

As a parent with concerns about my child’s academic progress, I had many meetings with school at the time, but was constantly reassured that there were no issues despite his obvious inability to get his work from head to paper. I was fobbed off repeatedly. My child had to be physically dragged into school each day. It was disastrous and even thinking about forcing him into such a Send unfriendly school makes me feel guilty even today.<\/p>\n

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It might be bad form to publish a copy of a letter from school, but the deflection, gas lighting and lack of Send support was appalling. I was often at the school door with issues ranging from school refusal, no Send support, physical bullying, a stabbing with a pencil during an unsupervised PE lesson out of the building and an incident involving another child who was trying to get the children on his table to Google images of rape during a sketching class.<\/p>\n

During Year 5, it became a crisis. Three children in three consecutive years, all with\u00a0 Aspergers and all with the same class teachers left Broomhill Juniors. I can only speak for my child, but functional school exclusion was the main reason for us as well as the school not being able to guarantee his safety. My child could barely hold a pencil and certainly couldn’t use it, but this was apparently not holding him back or causing any problems towards his education.<\/p>\n

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