{"id":40886,"date":"2021-11-10T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=40886"},"modified":"2021-11-10T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:57:32","slug":"bristol-city-council-report-upsets-send-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/bristol-city-council-report-upsets-send-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City Council Report Upsets Send Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written Statement of Action Progress Report regarding EHCPs doesn’t match families’ experiences community says<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upset has been caused in the Bristol Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send) community, after a report by Bristol City Council released this month did not match parent carers’ experiences of Local Authority systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final Written Statement of Action (WSoA) progress report has been released by the council as part of its response to ‘significant areas of weakness’ discovered by Ofsted and the CQC as part of a joint Send inspection in November 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final statement was quietly released by the council on the 05 November, although remained unnoticed by parent carers until a post regarding its publication was published on the Local Offer website this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post said: ‘The final Written Statement of Action (WSoA) progress report is now available at https:\/\/bit.ly\/3F12WVb In 2019<\/a>, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission carried out an inspection of #SEND support in Bristol and identified a number of key areas for improvement. We created the WSoA, setting \u2018milestones\u2019 every 4 months to achieve our aims. The final milestone was in July 2021, and this report looks at the progress made.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post was met with derision on Facebook. One parent carer said the report was ‘full of lies’ and asked how the ‘fractured parental relationships’ can be repaired whilst the council produces ‘manipulation’ like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another said that her child’s school could finally meet ‘some’ of his needs. But that it took a tribunal, private reports paid for by the family and two Judicial Review pre-action Protocol letters to get the council to abide by a Sendist Tribunal order. ‘Are you honestly trying to tell us BCC should get the credit for that?’

Bristol Send campaigner Sally Kent, Tweeted Asher Craig, the Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Children’s Services, Education and Equalities, in a series of Tweets highlighting the dissonance between the report’s statements and the city’s parent carer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31st Aug 21, 625 requests in system

123 children currently between 20-30 weeks

116 children currently between 30-40
Weeks

81 children currently over 40 weeks.

This is a 20 week statutory process.

What does you WSoA say @CllrAsherCraig<\/a>?<\/p>— Sally K (@southwestehcp) November 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>